1$ sng : Ax, with AA on the board.

[feydreva]

Hello,
Can you help me with this hand.. no sure I played it correctly...
I will put what I played later....

Begining of the sng, no special read on vilain... I jsut so him doing 1/3 pot bet with a very good hand...

Stacks:
* svana_dk with 1430
* BTN with 1470
* SB with 1330
* BB with 730
* UTG with 2040
* UTG+1 with 2260
* MP1 with 980
* MP2 with 570
* MP3 with 2690

Blinds: 15/30
Site: pokerstars
Dealt to BTN:4♦ A♣
Preflop:
* * UTG calls [30]
* * UTG+1 calls [30]
* * MP1 calls [30]
* * 3 players fold.
Hero calls [30]
* * BB: checks
* * 1 players folded.
* * Total folds this street: 4
* * Potsize: 165
Flop: 6♦ A♦ Q♣
* * BB: checks
* * UTG bets [90]
* * 3 players fold.
Hero calls [90]
* * 1 players folded.
* * Total folds this street: 3
* * Potsize: 345
Turn: A♥
* * UTG bets [150]
* * 1 players fold.
Hero calls [150]
* * Potsize: 645
River: 5♦
* * UTG bets [240] Hero ???

What would you do here ? and Why ?
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[Tammy]

That's the problem with limping weak Aces. You just don't know what your opponent may have.

That being said, what can villain have here? You can probably rule out a stronger Ace, as that would have probably prompted a preflop raise from him. Flush draw is possible here; river bet looks like he may have completed his flush and is value betting here. Just so hard to tell early on, with no real reads, especially in a $1 SNG.

I probably would have reraised on the turn, to get any draws out of the hand. I'm interested to see what others would do on the river, as played.

 

[pantin007]

That's the problem with limping weak Aces. You just don't know what your opponent may have.

That being said, what can villain have here? You can probably rule out a stronger Ace, as that would have probably prompted a preflop raise from him. Flush draw is possible here; river bet looks like he may have completed his flush and is value betting here. Just so hard to tell early on, with no real reads, especially in a $1 SNG.

I probably would have reraised on the turn, to get any draws out of the hand. I'm interested to see what others would do on the river, as played.

QFT
i think i would just call on the river as u dont get much value from hands u beat and u never fold out hands that have u beat

its early in the sng and u cant win it in these stages but u can certainly lose it

fold preflop imo

 

[shinedown.45]

With 3 limpers before you this is an easy fold preflop.
As played, I'm with pantin on this, a fold is way too weak and a raise will pot commit you so that leaves you with calling.

In the future, if you're going to play a weak ace from LP, raise.

 

[feydreva]

ok.. I knew going in with A rag was not a good idea....

so.. for the end of the story...
I raised to 800 and vilain folded....

 

[rakbarak]

the kicker is too weak.

Normally he must have 2 diamonds because he has just limped preflop.

If you call, you have enough money to continue...I fold

 

[Cobryn]

Its a dollar sng. I think you HAVE to call. I think theres a lot of hands he's going to make that bet on the end with. Unfortunately anything A-6 or better is going to beat you. Fortunately, he could be playing middle pairs, any Queen with a decent kicker, or a bunch of other hands.

Its entirely possible he was on a draw, or had a moderately weak hand and put you on the flush draw, which would explain the weakish bet on the river.

If its a value bet, he's got to know that theres only a small range of hands that are going to be able to call him on that river... and if he was sitting on this monster that he seems to be... Why not 3/4 pot bet that river, knowing that any ace would be likely to call?

I'm calling, and will have enough chips to recover even if I'm wrong.

 

[Cobryn]

By the way.... can we get the ending to the story?

 

[feydreva]

I raised 800

and he folded...

 

[feydreva]

I am not sure my raise was a good idea...
Any hand that could beat me would have call...

I have no idea what he had....

AQ would have call/raise
A flush would not have bet that much fro a draw (?)
Maybe he had an A... but though he had a lower kicker, or he thought I had AQ, or the flush...

Who knows....

 

[baudib1]

He could have anything. He could have 65, KJ, KK.

 

[feydreva]

betting 2/3 of the flop with a 65 on a 6AQ flop is a lot no ?