I tried to reply to your original thread several times but had no success, so I have replied here with a link to the old thread and a link to this one in Beretta's thread. Hope this helps.

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<span lang="EN-GB">Hi Beretta,

I don't really think that this hand has anything to do with the size of thebuy-in. I think that regardless of the buy-in amount, you are alwaystaking the risk of aces getting cracked. I understand that you weregetting short stacked and didn't want to frighten away any potential actionwith a huge raise and IMO the 3xBB raise u made was fine. Players aregenerally gonna think they're ahead when they hit top pair on the flop. This is not always the case, as we see here, but it happens nevertheless. What probably happened here is that your opponent thought that you were raisingwith a big Ace. They didn't see this come on the flop plus they hit top pairthemselves with their 10if you think someone is raising with AK or abig pair such as AA or KK. If the flop brings middle or low cards raiserwill make a continuation bet to see if they're still ahead. Meanwhile youmay have hit 2 pair, trips, 4 to the straight, 4 to the flush or indeed hit thestraight or flush. The point is, it is often assumed that when a playercalls a raise they that also have a big hand such as a big ace or high pair, sowhen you do hit it big on a low board against a big ace or pair it can be veryprofitable becasuse you are not credited with the hand you have. So, youcan't alway put aces ahead every time.</span></span>