$$1,10 NL HE HU Tournament: Playing with AA

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An easy hand to play: Seven players at the table, I'm the first to play, UTG+1 with AA and make miniraise. Only BB call. Dream flop, 6 of hearts, 4 and King of diamonds. Of course I c-bet and the villain just pays. Apparently I only lose to Trincas. I check on the turn when the A of spades appears and I pay all-in on the river when the K of diamonds appears. Did I make the right move?

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Full house with A. Great hand, isn't it?
 
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An easy hand to play: Seven players at the table, I'm the first to play, UTG+1 with AA and make miniraise. Only BB call. Dream flop, 6 of hearts, 4 and King of diamonds. Of course I c-bet and the villain just pays. Apparently I only lose to Trincas. I check on the turn when the A of spades appears and I pay all-in on the river when the K of diamonds appears. Did I make the right move?

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Full house with A. Great hand, isn't it?
It is best to not limit our Villains range to only trincas- The BB can have 64 K4s K6s as well as sets. As played there is no way we could know the V had KK so calling on the river is 100% correct-also if the V had K6 K4 they may play that as well
 
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I'm not sure what the blinds are but in looking at the pics I see 28, 30, 9 etc. so I am going to guess those are the stack sizes. At 30 BBs or so I think min raising is fine but you can also go anywhere from 2 to 2.5x. Sounds like small potatoes but it comes into play when you get in this spot many times per month and play many months then it starts to add up. So with that, I think we can open a little bigger here but min is not bad, just probably leaving a little on the table.

On the flop, I am not sure on sizing from the pics that you used but considering we min raised pre and only got one caller I would want to build the pot. Plenty of hands that are worse that will call like Kx and diamond draws and depending on villain BB and how well they understand the BB against a min raise you can see straight draws here as well. I think a sizing of anywhere at least 2 BBs is fine and depending on what you know about villain 3 BBs may even work here and get calls.

You check the turn which I don't like here in this specific spot. Yes, it might make Kx leery and fold but you also aren't probably getting any more at this point in the hand from Kx anyway (we don't know river at this point obviously) so I would bet here to continue to build the pot and also charge the draws. The check actually makes the Kx have no decision and the draws see a card for free. It takes away a chance for villain to bluff raise (although unlikely) the ace and makes it harder (or so we would think) to get it all in on the river.

The river is a card that is bad and good. No draws came in and this is a board I would doubt draws would bluff so all draws villain could have would be in check fold mode. Of course now Kx will pay us off (or lead as I guess villain had Kx here... dont see any results but I am going on about 36 hours without sleep at time of writing due to traveling the past day so maybe Im missing it) so this is just a simple call as played. We only lose to KK and if villain had that then it is just super cooler.

All in all I dont really like the way you played turn since most river cards that come up as blanks will generate check/folds to you and you would then have missed a street of value.
 
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Fold! Villain has quads! (not sure why villain didn't 3-Bet preflop though... guess he knew you had AA).

I say quads... otherwise I don't understand why you'd post this hand history.
 
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I prefer betting the turn for value. Lots of worse hands can call like draws, KX, two pair, worse sets. On the river I dont know, if you are actually asking a question, or if the hand is a bad beat story, because the opponent had quads?
 
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checking turn is bad because you didn't have the lock, there are plenty of draws that beats your set of Aces on the river, so you have to protect your hand and charge villain for the draws (straight, flush) that you won't get a penny from if they miss river.
 
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