How would you have played this?

Bobba18

On the final table of a 3k guarantee in my local casino last night, 8 left.  The average stack is 80K and I am sat with around 100k with the blinds 4k,8k - 1k ante.  I have been extremely card dead on the final table and as a result I have a tight table image.  The player directly to my left has been aggressive and is the chip leader.

The cards are folded around to me in the small blind, holding Ah,5h.  I raise to 25k and the big blind calls.  The flop comes: 3h, As, 9c.  At this point I am very confident I am ahead.  I check to induce a bluff in to this already large pot from the aggressive player.  I also think there is not many scary turn cards that can hit the board if he does decide to check behind, which he does.

Turn: 4h.

Now I feel I have a lock on this hand, and if I do somehow find myself behind, I have 9 outs on the river.  I am 90% sure that if i check again on the turn the big blind will take a stab at the pot.  I check.  The big blind bets 25k.  I decide that now is the time to pull the trigger, and push all in for my remaining 75k.  I get snap called and the big blind turns over: 2s, 5c.

River: Jc, and I crash out in 8th place, leaving the big blind to mow down the rest of the field and take 950 pounds.  I take home an insulting 60 pounds.

My question obviously is, what do you think of my post-flop line?  I still personally feel I didn't play the hand badly but I now clearly regret not ending the hand on the flop.

The_Don90

you let him get there on the cheap playing a rag ace.

So either fold pre of jam when you flop the ace.

LOL_RAISE

shove preflop.

i think postflop is fine given reads

BlackFish3

In Response to Re: How would you have played this?:

shove preflop. i think postflop is fine given reads
Posted by LOL_RAISE

I agree with this. Have to shove preflop though. Not enough room to play. Postflop because of your opponents aggression and the chance he will bet I like how you played it.

DeucesLive

 Agree with your thinking throughout the hand, if you're against a super aggro player you want to try and get value- there's no way you can put him on the wheel in this spot. If he's as aggro as you say he may have floated a flop bet and hit on turn anyway, so there's not a great deal you can do postflop.

Preflop however, pot is worth 20k, 20% of your stack- absolutely shove this holding a suited ace. If he wakes up with a bigger ace or pair, so be it.

alex1229

When its near the end/final table, close the pots asap somthing similar happened to me lst night,  last 3 in tourny, i hit a set on the flop, i try and be greedy and let him bet first, but he hits a straight on turn then river, and i lose a fair bit