$ NL HE MTT: My 88 against villain's AA.

[Gritz18]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Table Format

MTT

Freeroll

1. Freeroll

Currency

$

If villain had 3bet higher, I would have folded with 88, but he gave me odds for the call, only 2.5bb, despite being the first to act after the flop.

What do you think, who played wrong in this situation?🤔

888Poker, Hold'em No Limit - 25/50 (5 ante) - 8 players
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UTG: 1,879 (38 bb)
UTG+1: 1,924 (38 bb)
MP: 1,909 (38 bb)
MP+1: 1,829 (37 bb)
CO: 2,268 (45 bb)
BU: 4,157 (83 bb)
SB (Hero): 1,769 (35 bb)
BB: 1,942 (39 bb)

Pre-Flop: (115) Hero is SB with 8♠ 8♥
UTG raises to 100, 2 players fold, MP+1 3-bets to 150, 2 players fold, Hero calls 125, 1 fold, UTG calls 50

Flop: (540) 7♠ J♣ 8♣ (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, MP+1 bets 150, Hero raises to 650, UTG folds, MP+1 raises to 1,674 (all-in), Hero calls 964 (all-in)

Turn: (3,768) 9♣ (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (3,768) Q♣ (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: 3,768

Showdown:
MP+1 shows A♦ A♥ (a pair of Aces)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 81%, Flop: 10%, Turn: 9%, River: 0%)

SB (Hero) shows 8♠ 8♥ (three of a kind, Eights)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 19%, Flop: 90%, Turn: 91%, River: 100%)

SB (Hero) wins 3,768

 

[DaMooca]

Horrible is his play with a pair of aces, raising 1 blind after the UTG increase?? He should have done at least 3x, raised the minimum, and it was cheap for SB and BB to get their hands on.

 

[fundiver199]

Preflop
The problem with this situation is, that even though you are getting decent odds to setmine, the betting has been reopened for UTG. So some percentage of the time you will be facing a 4-bet, which you cant really give action. So while sticking in the extra 125 chips is not a significant mistake, it would also be fine to just fold and move on.

Flop
On such a coordinated flop I am totally on board with fastplaying, since there are many future cards, that can kill the action and make your decisions more difficult.

Results
This is why, we dont use silly 3-bet sizing, just because we have AA. MP+1 almost begged people to setmine against him and got, what he asked for

 

[Gritz18]

The problem with this situation is, that even though you are getting decent odds to setmine, the betting has been reopened for UTG. So some percentage of the time you will be facing a 4-bet, which you cant really give action.

I thought about it a lot, in a possible 4bet from the villain UTG, if he did that I would certainly have given up, what made me call is that this villain UTG was opening a lot of hands in any position, so I took a risk, since the price was not so expensive.😁

 

[Canaldo Kao]

Those Runner Runner flushes really piss me off when they happen!

 

[georgi krastev]

What do you think, who played wrong in this situation?🤔

I think that the 3bet (preflop) from MP1 is some joke... After this (flop) It does not take into account the check-raise... He thinks he's ahead with the AA, or he doesn't fold AA's...