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  1. dozo5 dozo5 is offline

    Madison, WI
    United States

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    Nov 26th, 2007 (11/26/2007 12:40pm)

    Live, 1-2 NL game; played in this game beofre and mostly hyper-aggressive, but this table was super weak-tight, not even much limping. I sit down and start getting rolling, stealing lots of pots without many showdowns, trying to loosen the table at least a little, all the while not being able to play a lot of pots since i was getting dealt absolute trash. Only other guy who was playing semi aggresively min raises in 3rd position, one call and I have AA in the cutoff. The previous hand I raised to 12 with QQ and everyone folded, and showed the QQ. So this hand I re-raise to 14 and with the SB calling, the original raiser and the other caller. Flop ccomes AK7 all spades and its checked to me, so I make it 25. SB folds, raiser folds and other caller tanks a bit and calls. Turn is a blank, he checks and I shove for 82 and he snap calls and shows the QJ spades, river brings me no help (10s just to give him the royal). I've thought about how I could have played the hand differently and two things come to mind; 1) make a larger raise pre-flop, but with how tight the table was playing I figured 14 would be enough to get the original raiser in the pot but not any other callers. 2) I don't mind my flop bet, but when the guy check called the flop and checked the turn I could have taken a free card to try and boat up. I put the guy on a hand like KQ with the Q of spades, the only hand in his range that I thought I was losing to was QJ or Q10 of spades, as I had seen him lay KJ for one bet and similar hands. If I check the turn I hate the river putting 4 spades on the board and I just fold here. Any suggestions on what I could do to avoid getting stacked here?
  2. areaman areaman is offline

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    Nov 26th, 2007 (11/26/2007 12:46pm) in reply to dozo5

    about as bad as it gets young padwan.

    but really, you want action from q/js so raising more preflop is...not in your best interest.
    after he cold calls oop on the flop, unless hes terrible, which, we can safely say he probably is...but you have to think he has the flush already made. checking behind is probably the play i make on the turn because i think its fairly obvious he has the flush.
  3. Obi Obi is offline

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    Nov 26th, 2007 (11/26/2007 12:59pm) in reply to dozo5

    that's just a tuff beat, i don't think raisin more preflop is the answer,i mean you reraised 2 1/2 time the raiser already,no way you coulda known both would call,altho it makes sense for 3rd guy because of pot odds,since he did call i would be very suspicious of this flop after he called the flop bet,at this point there is no doubt he knows wht u have,i personally do not push or call a big bet on river unless i boat of course,there are better plrs to give advice,but that's my outlook,gl
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