AA's cracked by a flush - could I have spotted it here

GaryLaud

Was playing 2p/4p earlier and had my AA's out-done again! I just want to know if I could have easily spotted that there was a possible flush lurking and folded my hand (Like I am thinking on reviewing this after the event) or did I just get unlucky again with Aces?

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£2.48
	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£1.27
	Big blind		£0.04	£0.10	£3.96
GaryLaud	Your hole cards		Ad As
	Check
M	Raise		£0.12	£0.22	£2.66
1	Fold
GaryLaud	Call		£0.12	£0.34	£2.32
2	Fold
T	Call		£0.08	£0.42	£1.19
s	Call		£0.08	£0.50	£3.88
FLOP		4s	3s	ks
Oppy	Check
s	Check
m	Check
GaryLaud	Check
TURN		Kd
Oppy	Bet		£0.38	£0.88	£0.81
s	Fold
m	Fold
GaryLaud	Call		£0.38	£1.26	£1.94
RIVER		6d
Oppy	All-in		£0.81	£2.07	£0.00
GaryLaud	Call		£0.81	£2.88	£1.13
Oppy	Show
J
Q
GaryLaud	Show	Ad As
Oppy	Win	Flush to the King	£2.66		£2.66

Lambert180

Why are we flat calling with AA pre? Just never ever do this, especially at 4NL when people will 100% call with SO many worse hands.

We should 3bet to like 40p preflop minimum.

Again, why are we checking the flop? Bet it!

vvv rare we're ever gonna be in a situation where we can fold AA when the opponent starts the hand with a little over 25xBB. Just unlucky, but you should have got the money in much earlier.

hhyftrftdr

Re-raise pre. Bet the flop.

Outcome might be the same, but such is life.

alex1229

You gotta raise man ! 

Someone bets 12p you have the best starting hand, whack it up to 40-50p

\At the lower stakes they will always call you

On the flop bet big

Your just calling, your not taking the initiative, thats understanble as its all new to you, but you need to start re raising, and betting out. Not just calling when your behind

You have the A of spades to give you the nuts, so im not worried about the flush so much as u have outs, bet all streets

shakinaces

No-one can really come on here and give any advice that isn't 'bet plenty pre-flop with big hands at micro limits'.

No reason for not being happy to 3bet, 4bet, get it in pre and know you've done the right thing - pretty much 100% of the time with aces and almost 100% of the time with kings - even hands like JJ/QQ/AK at NL4 are worth going with pre-flop against a lot of the random players you'll bump into.

Don't worry about the times when you 3 bet to (say) 40p and everyone folds - you've just made 18p risk-free profit!  This is always way more preferable than letting multiple worse hands see flops that let them increase their chances of sucking out on you.

I guess it is a tough change in mindset moving from DYM (defend your stack at all costs) to cash (attack other people's stacks mercilessly) - but that's the shift that is needed to succeed in cash, with lots more aggression.

It's a whole lot more fun though at the cash tables as you start to adapt!

CPMAX

   I have tried to copy and paste this hand from last nights 20k super roller against ewoowoow00 hand #766848303 where i had 9 10 offsuit on big blind and ewoowoow00 decided to flat call with A A . This was a big mistake as the flop came 999 which made me quads and him the full house ,he bet minumum on turn and on river and thats where i pushed all in where he instantly called ,  never seen anything like it before haha