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  1. Villain was a solid aggressive player. How would you play it?

    Full Tilt Poker Game #13746040844: Table Sun Reef - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 10:02:56 ET - 2009/08/01
    Seat 1: Alem51 ($21)
    Seat 2: Eva8822 ($100)
    Seat 3: Robocup ($30.05)
    Seat 4: KevinTian ($17.50)
    Seat 5: undertheradar2 ($178.95)
    Seat 6: JMagnat ($91.10)
    Seat 7: chucktx64 ($72.30)
    Seat 8: David Schlager ($154.40)
    Seat 9: Poking_Fun ($113.20)
    Eva8822 posts the small blind of $0.50
    Robocup posts the big blind of $1
    The button is in seat #1
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to undertheradar2 [Kh Ks]
    KevinTian folds
    undertheradar2 raises to $3.50
    JMagnat folds
    chucktx64 folds
    David Schlager raises to $11.15
    Poking_Fun folds
    Alem51 folds
    Eva8822 folds
    Eva8822 adds $0.50
    Robocup folds
    undertheradar2 raises to $34.95
    David Schlager has 15 seconds left to act
    David Schlager raises to $154.40, and is all in

    your action?
  2. pretty sure you have to get in in here everytime. probably up against qq or ak a better percentage of the time than the villian wakes up with aa here. if he has it its a cooler and just reload. I feel like getting it in here is long term way +ev.
    seems like you posted this cause you did get it in and he had aa, or ak and spiked it. guess ill have to wait to find out.
  3. please dont fold
     
  4. looks like aces to me.....

    but would I fold? nah

    that;s why I suck.

    let's see the rest...
  5. A trny player playing cash cant find a fold here ...but as a cash player I can def find a fold here if I know the guys tendencies.

    Unless your image is kind of nutty then the truth is AK and QQ would likely flat your 4 bet. KK and AA would likely jam but YOU have KK.

    Had you repopped him at all before that or three bet fold him? IF not even better chance this is AA unless he is a trny donk mixing it up in the cash games

    I think identiying when you are up against AA with KK is a important to cash profitability as is making big correct big laydowns in general
     
  6. maybe the games are different on tilt, but on stars i would say that ive seen ak and qq shove in that spot way more often then just flatting. especially the ak. people play ak pre insanely aggresive, getting full stacks in at 2/4 nl without even a flinch.
  7. ooo its FT please fold your up vs AA for sure!!! Just joking but 2 days ago 6 handed i been up 4 times in a session with KK vs AA way more then normal in a 6 handed 2 hours session.Ya for sure its possible to fold KK pre vs a tight player who never ever 4 bet without the nuts...but you stated he a solid agresif player so i geuss call and hope K hits.
     
  8. anymore opinions out there before I tell results?
    Thread Starter
  9. I call here and then shout FFS!!!! when he flips up the bullets
  10. i mean we all know he has aces this time but people will still play the hand like this with a few others also just sucks when u get kings in pre and are already dominated.
  11.  
    Originally Posted by pharreal87 View Post

    i mean we all know he has aces this time but people will still play the hand like this with a few others also just sucks when u get kings in pre and are already dominated.

    sf this!
  12. I call and bink the king on the river ldo
  13.  
    Originally Posted by natedoggprov View Post

    maybe the games are different on tilt, but on stars i would say that ive seen ak and qq shove in that spot way more often then just flatting. especially the ak. people play ak pre insanely aggresive, getting full stacks in at 2/4 nl without even a flinch.

    This guys not playing 2/4 nl hes playing 100nl.
  14. Im not much of a cash player but wouldn't flatting his 3 bet be more profitable? I mean your 4 bet narrows his range to probably QQ+ AKo/AKs, where his 3 bet range might be much wider.

    I think I'd flat but as played call AI.
  15.  
    Originally Posted by zigi View Post

    ooo its FT please fold your up vs AA for sure!!! Just joking but 2 days ago 6 handed i been up 4 times in a session with KK vs AA way more then normal in a 6 handed 2 hours session.Ya for sure its possible to fold KK pre vs a tight player who never ever 4 bet without the nuts...but you stated he a solid agresif player so i geuss call and hope K hits.

    wut
  16. In this situation I fold EVERY TIME. Cant find a fold? Are you guys joking? In tournaments KK rarely (if ever) gets laid down pre in online tourneys but this is not a tourney... This guy has aces about 90% time.
  17. whoever doesn't fold here can't play cash worth sh*t
  18.  
    Originally Posted by cbolt21 View Post

    In this situation I fold EVERY TIME. Cant find a fold? Are you guys joking? In tournaments KK rarely (if ever) gets laid down pre in online tourneys but this is not a tourney... This guy has aces about 90% time.

    lol at this.
    plz dont fold. plz realize KK vs AA is a cooler, and hope its the one outta 5 times you suck out.
     
  19. also, plz remind me to epicly exploit the top 2 posters nittiness. if i see you fold KK pre, im 3/4/5 betting you guys SOOOO light its rediculous.
     
  20. calling off with kk here in 100nl fr against any reg is so unbelievably bad, if you think otherwise you obv have no experience in these games
  21. you have the 2nd nuts. one hand beats you. just dont fold. that easy, click call.

    weve had this discussion 2839457923 times, there are VERY few instances where it is correct to laydown KK preflop

    this just isnt one ofem. maybe add 300-400 effective big blinds more and well talk.
     
  22. going aipf with the 2nd nuts 150+bb deep (or even 100) is not good against what op describes as a solid reg when the action is from early position..........if this reg is shoving QQ or AK in this spot then he is not a solid reg lol unless there's history between the 2 players, which i'm assuming there isn't.
  23. I don't like sticking 150 BB's in with one pair. I'm pretty nitty and it's not an easy fold by any means, but if you're a winning player to any degree, I think you can find a better spot to get nearly your whole stack in there.

    Against someone that you have seen get out of line, this may be a snap-call. You've described him as a solid/aggro player which makes me have to give him the benefit of the doubt. He has made $50+ in this session (second in chips to you) and he's one of three stacks that has more than a full stack at the table. In a lot of cases, this points out who the winning players are at the table. The conclusion that can be made from his stack is either a) he's a winning player or b) he's been getting lucky, and I don't want my whole stack on the line against either of these types.

    My opinion is to take your $34.95 loss and flop a set in a few hands to make up for it :) You might kick yourself later when you see this guy show up in this same situation with KQs, but it takes a lot of grinding to make up for this kind of mistake if he has AA.
  24. "Villain was a solid aggressive" If he was a rock, fold. With the description you give or no read at all, call. A large % of people id imagine don't 5 bet ANY hand besides AA, so with the read I think you can fold this 155 BB deep. Assuming villain is a random I think AA shows up around 2/3 the time and AK/QQ the other 1/3, since you are so deep 9 handed. $70 in the middle $120 to call, but at least you can always suck out ;)
  25. i recently did some study of 4 and 5bet pots pre at 100nl. the 5better had AA ~50%of the time. the other 50 % was composed of some random spew shoves AK,AJ TT other shit. the spew shoves tend to happen in later positions and not for this many bb's. he is 5betting a 2 pos 4bet here.
    no one who is good is EVER 5 bet shoving over a 4 bet form 2nd position 150 bbs eff. with AK or QQ. unless they are on some sort of mega tilt or have some crazy history with the 4 bettor. he has AA like almost everytime in this spot at this level making this a easy clear fold def not a cooler with 150 bb stacks.
  26. I appreciate all the responses. I can't find the exact hand history but it doesn't matter. I folded the kings. I have never done that before and don't know that I will ever do that again but I had a bad feeling I was up against AA here. I tend to go with my gut instincts in situations like this and live with the consequences.

    Many of you had solid points in both directions. I only folded because in this ONE instance I did not feel good about the villian's allin raise. And no it wasn't a scared of losing money fold per se. Just felt like it wasn't a great situation this deep against this particular villian to call his allin. And honestly, I am not real good yet at making big laydowns. Whether or not it was right is really irrelevant. It felt like the right thing to do so thats what I did.

    Sorry it took so long to respond but I was busy building shelves for my garage and I'm not much of a carpenter so it took awhile. Thanks for all the input.
    Thread Starter
  27.  
    Originally Posted by Deoxyribo View Post

     
    Originally Posted by cbolt21 View Post

    In this situation I fold EVERY TIME. Cant find a fold? Are you guys joking? In tournaments KK rarely (if ever) gets laid down pre in online tourneys but this is not a tourney... This guy has aces about 90% time.

    lol at this.
    plz dont fold. plz realize KK vs AA is a cooler, and hope its the one outta 5 times you suck out.

    I disagree with this. You can't just blame tough spots on a "cooler" and claim there's nothing you can do about it. If you have KK and you believe your opponent has AA, then you're an 80% underdog and should fold. That's simple.
  28. If you're not willing to call the all-in here then you should never be 4-betting KK in this spot. Ever. You basically turned everything you can ever have, besides the nuts, into a bluff. That's really really stupid and super exploitable imo.

    I don't play full ring cash, so I don't really have a solid sense on how to range guys in these types of spots. Does this guy ever 3-bet light? If he knows what's up then doubtless he does some of the time. Can he ever 5-bet shove lightish (meaning QQ and maybe AK are in his range)? This is where you're basically read dependent and if you think you made the right move by throwing it out, then it's hard to disagree with you. But none of this changes how atrocious a play 4-betting was if you consider folding a viable option ever. You basically just lit $34 on fire with that 4-bet.

    IMO, the number one thing to learn from this hand is to think about your next move should your opponent make a certain type of action against your play. For instance, in this hand you should have had an idea, before you 4-bet, on what you would do if villian 5-bet you--and if it is ever fold, then 4-betting is never correct since you just turned KK into a bluff. Instead you should have called and taken a flop, then decided on how to proceed depending on what flopped, which I still think is dumb, but at least the play would have made sense from your perspective.
  29. [ ] Deep stacked cash game

    [ ] You should fold

    [x] lol at this thread
     
  30. You say you felt like you should fold and you did. I say gj because in that kind of situation your subconscious comes into play giving you that "feeling" and you listened.