requested...
3/6 kill O8. Regular 3/6 pot, I'm in BB and get dealt AAT8ds.
Not great, but not at all bad either. It folds all the way round to
SB, who raises it to $6, he seems to be winning but has played
aggressively so far and seems to raise a lot, especially in LP. Raises
a fair few hands PF too. I decide my hand is probably best in a heads
up situation with position and make it 3 bets to him. He caps, I call
the 4th bet. We both have tons of money left.
Flop KJ3, rainbow with 2 of my suits (I *think*). He bets out. In
this spot I go for a Mike Cappelletti move - my hand is certainly enough
to call with 9 SBs in the pot (4 queens to the nuts, 2 aces to a
probable win, and perhaps 3 3s to win if he has something like A2KJ, two
backdoor flush draws worth maybe 1-2 outs in total, given this is hi/lo)
but I might just be best here (or splitting with another AA) so I decide
to raise. He makes it 3 bets. Hard for me to see that I'm ahead here,
also hard to put him on a hand. Suppose a set is possible but who
knows... I call the third bet, pot's getting big now.
Turn brings an offsuit 6. Kinda troubling. I know have the weediest
of low draws, nothing else has changed. I still think a Q scoops, A
probably gives me at least half. He bets, I call.
River pairs the 3 on board. No flushes. He bets again, I breifly
actually consider raising with my top 2 pair because there's no low out
and he needs either a 3 in hand or KK or JJ to win it, but in the end I
decide it's hard to see him calling much I can beat (KJ or AK perhaps)
and I will lose two bets if he re-raises with a boat, so I call.
So, I end up basically firing out 7 SBs and 2 BBs with a hand that's
never really more than a bare pair of aces with a few sketchy draws.
The opponent later lambasted me for falling in love with my aces
(somewhat comically, I took a huge pot off him later with mega-draw that
decimated his aces for a river scoop), which in a way was kind fair
enough. I thought most of the plays I made, there's a decent excuse
for, though? Perhaps if I only called the raise preflop, and then
basically "missed" the flop, I could lay down, but I rather think I
would in fact have raised that flop heads up, and so it'd still have
cost me only one SB less to get to showdown...! Calling ALL the way
seems a little loose-passive, no?
Although this hand felt like I'd played it awfully at the time, I'm
struggling to see where I could've got away from it without much less
damage, though perhaps I'm thinking a little one-dimensionally here...
thoughts?
Monk
xxxxxStatistics: Posted by Felonius_Monk — Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:31 pm
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