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A complete mess with AK.
This hand is from a six-max (speed) game, no reads.
I made a complete mess of this hand and need a walkthrough as I often find myself in this situation. At the time I remember thinking "I need to raise big here to get rid of some opponents, let's raise to 280". However, looking back at the hand, it probably should have been a much bigger raise. Thoughts?
I made a complete mess of this hand and need a walkthrough as I often find myself in this situation. At the time I remember thinking "I need to raise big here to get rid of some opponents, let's raise to 280". However, looking back at the hand, it probably should have been a much bigger raise. Thoughts?
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lacylinda1 | Small blind | | 25.00 | 25.00 | 1425.00 |
| peter27 | Big blind | 50.00 | 75.00 | 3250.00 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| Batso | Raise | 100.00 | 175.00 | 1810.00 | |
| TURN_IT_IN | Call | 100.00 | 275.00 | 2240.00 | |
| lacylinda1 | Call | 75.00 | 350.00 | 1350.00 | |
| peter27 | Raise | 280.00 | 630.00 | 2970.00 | |
| Batso | Call | 230.00 | 860.00 | 1580.00 | |
| TURN_IT_IN | Call | 230.00 | 1090.00 | 2010.00 | |
| lacylinda1 | Call | 230.00 | 1320.00 | 1120.00 | |
| Flop | |||||
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| lacylinda1 | Check | ||||
| peter27 | Check | ||||
| Batso | Bet | 900.00 | 2220.00 | 680.00 | |
| TURN_IT_IN | All-in | 2010.00 | 4230.00 | 0.00 | |
| lacylinda1 | Fold | ||||
| peter27 | Fold | ||||
| Batso | All-in | 680.00 | 4910.00 | 0.00 | |
| TURN_IT_IN | Unmatched bet | 430.00 | 4480.00 | 430.00 | |
| Batso | Show |
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| TURN_IT_IN | Show |
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| Turn | |||||
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| River | |||||
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| TURN_IT_IN | Win | Pair of Queens | 4480.00 | 4910.00 | |
Comments
Could play it small ball and peel the BB and proceed with caution. Or more likely, a large raise that says we are playing for stacks if anyone wants to come along.
Shoving pre can never be a bad option either when we cover the table in this pretty shallow format....I'd hazard a guess AQ etc would snap you off here.
Dev, surprised you think that a single raise and 2 callers means someone must have JJ+....we block AA and KK for starters, and it's 4 handed so highly highly likely that AK is the best hand. Obviously we'll be racing sometimes, and crushing their range often, with only very rarely being crushed ourselves. I'm astounded you think the best option is to just open fold.
I remember in a previous hand you posted a while back you saying something along the lines of " I have own my own reasons for not wanting to commit too many of my chips into the pot early in a DYM"
Just wondering if this is a theory you could expand upon a little bit.
There does seem to be a bit of a running theme where you make kind of small, potentially non committing? 3 bets.
Be interested to here.
Lots of Axs, broadway combos, smaller pairs and maybe even a number of suited connectors and Kxs hands.
Factor all those in and AK has to be ahead of the overall range.
I probably consider more a fit-or-fold if it is early stages, but more than happy to gamble 4-handed, especially as we need to lock up 1st places at standard SNGs to make them pay.
If someone ONLY plays pairs then I can see an argument for folding AK, especially as we can raise their big blind and get folds 90%+ of the time risk free.
FWIW, in either a sit n' go or MTT, folding out a flip by shoving AK can never be a bad thing. 22 might technically be ahead but that's beside the point.
When you say 'no reads' do you mean you cant remember or you actually had none?
We are into the third level and two people have gone out already.
The hand looks absolutely fine to me.
You could go a bit bigger pre with the 3 bet, I suppose it doesn't really make a difference all players were still going to want to see a flop.
As others have said as well, jamming pre is good too.
Not at all a complete mess.