Opinions please... Hand I played

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dumpy620_84

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1/2 NL Live...

Is this a bad play? Full table, very loose. Probably averaging 5 or 6 people to the flop. Almost always limping with very few preflop raises. I'm in the SB. There are two limpers in early position. One guy (Player A) raises it to $7 in middle position. There are 3 callers behind him. It gets to me and I look down at Q10 off suit. I want to say here that I hate when people get married to some crap hand (i.e. "I always play 4 6 of spades!"), but I must admit that Q10 has a special place in my heart (as I said recently on a thread here). So my first question is, if you're playing this hand, do you call here?

My second question... Same hand... I called, and there was one more caller after me (roughly $42 in pot). Flop comes down 10 10 9, with 2 clubs. I check, and it gets checked around to a guy in middle position (sitting to the left of Player A). He (Player B) bets $15. Two guys behind him call (pot roughly $87). I go all in for total $55 ($15 call & $40 raise). It gets folded around to the guy sitting to the left Player B (both Players B & A have folded). (Here comes the question!) If you're sitting there (as Player C) with pocket aces, and you've got me who just went all in with that board, who has been sitting quietly for about an hour, showing absolutely no aggression, calling a few big blinds, folding to raises, hadn't played a pot, would you call?

I hope this makes sense.

Basically, I'm trying to justify to myself that this was not a bad preflop call on my part, knowing how loose this table was, knowing it was only costing me $6 more to see a flop, with my favorite hand for crying out loud! (which, I'll admit is a horrible reason to call a raise) I also want to know if people could get away from pocket aces in that situation (as I think this guy should have been able to do here).

And most of all, I'd like to know if you did call with your aces, and you didn't improve your hand, would you spend the next 20 minutes berating me like this idiot did last night?

Any other comments are welcome.
 
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BluffYou123

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I wouldn't have called. Q10o is a bad hand.

I can see why you did call though.

I'm sure you felt that he could have had ATC.

You were just having a look at the flop and it wasn't a huge raise.

It worked out really well for you.

If I had taken that beat I wouldn't be happy either but he had to know you had the 10.

Don't think I would have been able to get away from AA either to be honest but I wouldn't have berated you for 20 mins because I would have gone home right after that beat!!!
 
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What are you looking for here? I would have called because of my odds in the pot and if I hit my hand I could possibly get paid big here.If i was the guy with AA I would have played the hand differently pre-flop.Thats not what is in question here,I think you played the hand pretty good.Don't let it bother you,he is mad at himself because of his mis-playing AA.
 
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i dont like the call bc u were shortstacked if u had more chips its not a bad call u just have to be carefull if u continue with it, but with only $60 u cant be calling raises with q10 u cant afford it ull be broke quick.
 
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The guy with the aces should have re-raised to $20 pre-flop which may have made you re-consider Q 10. You have to re-raise or raise bigger with aces or you get nailed by these flops. Your play was risky being short stacked but you can`t sit and wait for big pairs all day. Poker gods were with you there my friend.
 
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calling here is -ev play you were only lucky to hit flop so hard also you said most of time players were limping so you must of known you would be up against a monster when faced with a raise.
 
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