$2 NL HE Full Ring: AK VS 77 : flops hits 7

[GDKavindu]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Stakes

$.01/$.02

Table Format

Full (8-10 seats)

VP$IP

0

AF

0

Currency

$

was I played like a fish?

888Poker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 9 players
Replay this hand on CardsChat - https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/1aKpw29

KingofPokerH (UTG): $2.18 (109 bb)
collossfish (UTG+1): $0.80 (40 bb)
BigRimel (MP): $3.57 (179 bb)
kavindu98 (MP+1): $7.78 (389 bb)
scottyc283 (LP): $1.90 (95 bb)
rezrez25 (CO): $1.34 (67 bb)
laacram (BU): $1.68 (84 bb)
Gangsterjim (SB): $1.62 (81 bb)
LuckyMuller (BB): $0.97 (49 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero (kavindu98) is MP+1 with A♥ K♣
3 players fold, kavindu98 (MP+1) raises to $0.06, scottyc283 (LP) 3-bets to $0.18, 4 players fold, kavindu98 (MP+1) calls $0.12

Flop: ($0.39) 7♥ J♥ A♠ (2 players)
kavindu98 (MP+1) checks, scottyc283 (LP) bets $0.25, kavindu98 (MP+1) raises to $1, scottyc283 (LP) raises to $1.72 (all-in), kavindu98 (MP+1) calls $0.72

Turn: ($3.83) A♦ (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($3.83) J♣ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $3.83 (Rake: $0.24)

Showdown:
scottyc283 (LP) shows 7♣ 7♠ (a full house, Sevens full of Aces)
(equity - Pre-Flop: 55%, Flop: 92%, Turn: 84%, River: 0%)

kavindu98 (MP+1) shows A♥ K♣ (a full house, Aces full of Jacks)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 45%, Flop: 8%, Turn: 16%, River: 100%)

kavindu98 (MP+1) wins $3.59

 

[fundiver199]

Preflop
You can either call his 3-bet or put in a 4-bet. If you 4-bet, you need to have a plan for, how you react to a 5-bet. And from these positions and against an unknown 2NL opponent AKo will usually be a fold.

Flop
Pretty good flop obviously, and the great thing about just calling his 3-bet is, that you now have a very well disguised TPTK. I dont see any reason to check-raise though. The problem is, it commits you to the pot already, so you dont give him any room to try to bluff you on the turn or make some sort of light river call. Your hand also dont need much protection, especially since you hold Ah making it much less likely, he has a flushdraw, and giving you a BDFD on heart turns. As played you obviously have to call it off, since you already committed yourself to the pot. Basically you are hoping to be against AQ or another AK.

Conclusion
Preflop is fine and postflop is just a cooler in a 3-bet pot. But I do prefer to check-call the flop rather than check-raise and get it in. And of course its always nice to bink a runner-runner suckout

 

[Aballinamion]

was I played like a fish?

888Poker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 9 players
Replay this hand on CardsChat - https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/1aKpw29

KingofPokerH (UTG): $2.18 (109 bb)
collossfish (UTG+1): $0.80 (40 bb)
BigRimel (MP): $3.57 (179 bb)
kavindu98 (MP+1): $7.78 (389 bb)
scottyc283 (LP): $1.90 (95 bb)
rezrez25 (CO): $1.34 (67 bb)
laacram (BU): $1.68 (84 bb)
Gangsterjim (SB): $1.62 (81 bb)
LuckyMuller (BB): $0.97 (49 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero (kavindu98) is MP+1 with A♥ K♣
3 players fold, kavindu98 (MP+1) raises to $0.06, scottyc283 (LP) 3-bets to $0.18, 4 players fold, kavindu98 (MP+1) calls $0.12

Flop: ($0.39) 7♥ J♥ A♠ (2 players)
kavindu98 (MP+1) checks, scottyc283 (LP) bets $0.25, kavindu98 (MP+1) raises to $1, scottyc283 (LP) raises to $1.72 (all-in), kavindu98 (MP+1) calls $0.72

Turn: ($3.83) A♦ (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($3.83) J♣ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $3.83 (Rake: $0.24)

Showdown:
scottyc283 (LP) shows 7♣ 7♠ (a full house, Sevens full of Aces)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 55%, Flop: 92%, Turn: 84%, River: 0%)

kavindu98 (MP+1) shows A♥ K♣ (a full house, Aces full of Jacks)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 45%, Flop: 8%, Turn: 16%, River: 100%)

kavindu98 (MP+1) wins $3.59

Preflop is okay, we can call 3-bet or 4-bet from time to time to balance our range.
The flop comes very good for our range with TPTK and BDF so when villain raises we don’t have much room for folding.
Hero/you played the hand fine, although you were losing OTF there was no space to fold here having gigantic equity versus villain.
On the contrary side of things, villain has played this hand like a fish, okay that it had hit a set, but jamming the flop at cash games isn’t a nice idea: villain was scared of the flush draw of hearts and tried to push to protect his set by using force:
Most of the chips should go OTT and OTR where we have more certainty about our equity.

 

[Aballinamion]

I dont see any reason to check-raise though. The problem is, it commits you to the pot already, so you dont give him any room to try to bluff you on the turn or make some sort of light river call. Your hand also dont need much protection,

Yes, I agree with your keen observation. Plus, I would like to add one more reason that we shouldn’t be check-raising this flop: when we do call a 3-bet we don’t own many combos of AA, otherwise we’d have 4-bet it almost 99% of times OOP: this villain owns most of AA combos and we own none, for we flat.

 

[John A]

OOP pre in micros, I think 4-betting AK is more profitable. As played X/C the flop. X/R, you're just allowing your opponent to play perfect. I might even small donk into them on this kind of flop, just to confuse them and not allow a free turn. After the X/R, you're committed.