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Hello everybody. I thought I might post this while waiting for the CardsChat free roll to begin. That way I am keeping my account active :) I am taking algebra in summer school right now, and it does not leave me a lot of time to post here or even to play poker for that matter. I am all caught up right now though so, I will post and I will free roll today :cool:

So this post is about the situation I was in last week during the free roll, how I busted out, and about what the best strategy might have been. Let me set it up for you. I was playing a tight aggressive game. I was floating right around 3rd place with 30 players or so left. I would play a few hands and maybe take a smallish hit to my stack pushing me down some on the place ladder, but for the most part I would bounce right back up after taking a hit.

I had just taken a hit, and I saw that now I had pocket aces in the hole. I made my standard pre flop raise and was then 3 bet pre flop. I thought for a second or two and then 4 bet the villain. He shoved all in. I called and I knew 100% in my mind he was on pocket kings. I was right. Unfortunately he out drew me for a set of
I kings and I was busted out in 30th.

Here is were the strategy questions come in. How might I have played it different and how would that have changed the out come? When I was 3 bet in to I suspected kings. When he shoved after my 4 bet I knew it was kings. Maybe I could've smooth called the 4 bet and then played it out to see if a king hit the board? Then I had the option to fold if a king did hit and I really believed he had pocket kings. But could I have folded after smooth calling a 4 bet with over half my stack invested already, even if I knew I was beat? I do not know. Could I have just called his 3 bet and tried to play pot control pending a disastrous king show up on the board? Or maybe I did everything right and it just wasn't my day?

What would you have done?
 
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If I was you I probably would have just called, and see the flop. But that K is not going to stop you from calling his bets on the turn or river. But you might not have got knocked out of the MTT if you didn't move all in yourself and he was playing for value to keep you in the hand. But it's ALMOST a fact that when those two hands are being played, all in is the result. And we can talk about it for hours, but it's just one hand and we never know what we would do unless we are playing it. Like someone told me years ago, AA is just one pair so if you play them all the way to the river and the board don't pair, watch out. GL to you
 
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I think that according to the strategy, I would do the same as you do. In my practice of 4 times, 1 time my aces are moving.
 
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Hello everybody. I thought I might post this while waiting for the CardsChat free roll to begin. That way I am keeping my account active :) I am taking algebra in summer school right now, and it does not leave me a lot of time to post here or even to play poker for that matter. I am all caught up right now though so, I will post and I will free roll today :cool:

So this post is about the situation I was in last week during the free roll, how I busted out, and about what the best strategy might have been. Let me set it up for you. I was playing a tight aggressive game. I was floating right around 3rd place with 30 players or so left. I would play a few hands and maybe take a smallish hit to my stack pushing me down some on the place ladder, but for the most part I would bounce right back up after taking a hit.

I had just taken a hit, and I saw that now I had pocket aces in the hole. I made my standard pre flop raise and was then 3 bet pre flop. I thought for a second or two and then 4 bet the villain. He shoved all in. I called and I knew 100% in my mind he was on pocket kings. I was right. Unfortunately he out drew me for a set of
I kings and I was busted out in 30th.

Here is were the strategy questions come in. How might I have played it different and how would that have changed the out come? When I was 3 bet in to I suspected kings. When he shoved after my 4 bet I knew it was kings. Maybe I could've smooth called the 4 bet and then played it out to see if a king hit the board? Then I had the option to fold if a king did hit and I really believed he had pocket kings. But could I have folded after smooth calling a 4 bet with over half my stack invested already, even if I knew I was beat? I do not know. Could I have just called his 3 bet and tried to play pot control pending a disastrous king show up on the board? Or maybe I did everything right and it just wasn't my day?

What would you have done?
I think you could have just called if you were completely sure he had KK and you were ready to fold if you saw one in the flop, which is still a really tough call.. i mean you'd be folding pocket aces... But i dont think he wouldnt have folded those kings either way... He thought he had the best hand, he was willing to die with and luck was on his side... Most of the times it would be him posting "i went all in with pocket Kings and he had pocked Aces, what should i have done?"(i did it like a week ago) Haha... You had THE best hand pre flop and his got better even when the chances of that happening were slim.
I think i would have gone all in after he re-raised haha... Its AA, really hard not to trust your life to that hand pre flop xD
 
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