Thoughts please

Ramster · Thoughts please

Blinds 150/300 ante 25

HC 150
Ram Ac Tc 300
swoop fold
Bigjoo fold
HC 150

FLOP 9h Ah 2s

HC 700
Ram 1400
HC all in 6318

So now im sat with 5032 chips on the bubble
All game ive been pushing all in when HC has bet into me and hes folded
The only place im wanting here is 1st (looking for that wsop ticket)

What would you do ?

Know-nuffin

I swear at the screen,

kick the dog,

slap Tracey,

eat a 1/2lb bar of chocolate,

decide to shove 'em all-in next have no matter what I'm holding

..... and fold.

(prolly fold the next hand too)

PoolDemon

With that many chips left, I don't feel you are pot commited, and only AA with a weak kicker, & no flush draw, i would fold it as I would think previous bets/folds dictate that you are probably behind...& you still have plenty of chips to make a good move with a better hand or a better flop...

HOUSECATS

Rmaster wrote
All game ive been pushing all in when HC has bet into me and hes folded
The only place im wanting here is 1st (looking for that wsop ticket)

Like you said you were pushing me all game. So I though you were trying to buy the pot with a simi-bluff with a draw. So I went back over top of you to push you off of your hand. But you hand a hand and i sucked out on you sorry.

Laagen13

that push all in doesnt sound like a made hand really. If one of the other are close elimination i would have considered to fold, but more then 70% of the times i will go all in, and hope it stands...

Ramster

Arjonius

What I'd do on this hand is play it differently to begin with. First, I'd raise pre-flop. With 700 in the pot at my turn, I put in somewhere around that in order to lay about 2:1 pot odds, which is likely to discourage a call if HC just limped hoping to see a cheap flop. AT suited is probably best right now, and if HC comes over the top big having limped a premium hand, I still have enough behind to fold quite easily.

Since I checked my option instead, I raise more after the flop, say to 2100. 1400 seems likely to be seen as either a decent but not great hand (one I'm likely willing to lay down to a push) or a pot-builder with a strong hand. But what could I have in the latter category given I checked pre-flop? A few hands, but not many, which increases the likelihood that what I have is a decent hand - and that increases the likelihood that HC may think a push will buy the pot. And if he is on a draw, I once again want to avoid offering him pot odds just to call. 1400 isn't enough to do that, so I'm also letting him draw, plus giving him a good situation to semi-bluff. That puts me to the test in a situation where my action is unclear. I'd rather bet more, which may even be seen as almost pot-committing myself, and lower the probability of that happening.

I also prefer flatting to min-raising. With a decent hand in position, this is partly for pot control. It lets me see if he'll fire again on the turn. It does let him represent a flush if another heart comes, but that will happen less than one time in four.

Ramster

Rightly or wrongly i figured HC would fold again to a big bet here on the flop
I figured he had caught part of it but i thought my Ace was good
When he came back over the top all in it just looked to me that he didnt want a call
I took the chance that my read was right and unluckily/luckily HC hit the river to make his 2 pair

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