Hero calls with AQo ($90 PF raise)

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RickAversion

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$1/$2 NL Live Cash game.
V1 is LAG spazz on tilt. Big stack
V2 is tight. Small stack.
V3 is tight and is TAG. Big stack.
Hero is medium stack.

Hero gets AQo..
V1 raises $90....
V2 all in..
Hero calls...all in..
V1 muck
V2 AT

Was this a good call?

Results:
Board: K5J K A

Hero wins with Queen kicker
Hero wins $200 pot.
 
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Well well Well ... just a minute before posting this hand you posted another hand where you limp with :7h4::7s4: and villain1 raises pre flop to 40 bucks or 20xbb, everyone folds and he shows :2s4::6d4:.

Now the same villain does something similar and raises an outrageous 45xbb pre flop - he gets a caller but now we pick up :ac4::qh4:. I think we would have been even more pleased had it been an even stronger hand but it is still a big hand. This is the opportunity or the chance we were waiting for - to take most of villain1's chips. Although he got one caller, he seldom has a better hand than us and in some cases we will have him dominated. We cannot let this opportunity go so i think calling is the best thing we can do. Take a risk and call - we are not going to fold all night such strong hands when opponents are on such tilt. :icon_flow
 
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Well well Well ... just a minute before posting this hand you posted another hand where you limp with :7h4::7s4: and villain1 raises pre flop to 40 bucks or 20xbb, everyone folds and he shows :2s4::6d4:.

Now the same villain does something similar and raises an outrageous 45xbb pre flop - he gets a caller but now we pick up :ac4::qh4:. I think we would have been even more pleased had it been an even stronger hand but it is still a big hand. This is the opportunity or the chance we were waiting for - to take most of villain1's chips. Although he got one caller, he seldom has a better hand than us and in some cases we will have him dominated. We cannot let this opportunity go so i think calling is the best thing we can do. Take a risk and call - we are not going to fold all night such strong hands when opponents are on such tilt. :icon_flow

I am not calling an early position all-in against a tight player with AQo unless we know for sure that he is calling off light because of the spazz to his right.

I see that you won the hand, but what did V2 hold?

-HooDooKoo
 
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Yes, once I understood he was a spazz tilt who was steamrolling the table,
I was trying to get into a hand with him, knowing I'd probably have a better hand in an all-in situation.
 
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I am not calling an early position all-in against a tight player with AQo unless we know for sure that he is calling off light because of the spazz to his right.

I see that you won the hand, but what did V2 hold?

-HooDooKoo

Board: K5J K A

V2 AT
Hero wins with A and Queen kicker
 
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Well done, given that the villain is prone to tooling out as you saw from the previous hand. AQ is a high variance call if he's just open-shoving a pocket pair or has a random suited connector, but you always know you're ahead and you can't ever fault yourself for calling.

It is true that V1 is still left to act, but unless he has aces or kings, maybe queens, he's folding and I'd just move all in to isolate if I wasn't already covered. I'd expect V1 to fold almost without exception once V2 and you both move all in.
 
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I play pretty tight when I play cash and I probably would have done the same. I'd be looking to get it in with V1 all day everyday. I would rather not have the tight player in my pot but worse case your still in for a decent side pot. This tight player was most likely looking to do just what you were doing. Get it in with V1 because A10 isn't so tight lol.
 
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I mixed up the villains, I thought V2 was the spazz. I still think it's a call, as V2 would know that V1 was wide and would get it in lighter. The fact that it's V2 makes it more marginal, but he's the small-stack and you still expect V1 to fold almost 100% of the time.

So once you can consider V1' $90 raise as dead money, it's a call.
 
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