I play AA like a spewtard... lucky for me, my opponent is game.

[frob23]

LOL, I played this hand pretty horribly and most of the time it goes down like this, I expect to be very far behind. I actually had a note on this villain that he would not fold a draw... even for large bets. I also had noted that he liked to lead small with his draw as a blocker bet. With those two things in mind, I decided to just commit with my AA. I expected to be up against the nut flush draw.


Merge - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

CO: $9.29
Hero (BTN): $41.42
SB: $10.13
BB: $7.74
UTG: $22.94

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10, CO posts DB $0.15

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero has A A

UTG calls $0.10, CO checks, Hero raises to $0.80, fold, fold, UTG calls $0.70, CO calls $0.70

Flop: ($2.60, 3 players) 6 3 7
UTG bets $0.80, CO calls $0.80, Hero raises to $5.80, UTG calls $5.00, fold


Turn: ($15.00, 2 players) 9
UTG checks, Hero bets $34.82 and is all-in, UTG calls $16.34 and is all-in

Ok, the pot is $15 and he has a little more than $16 left. I still think he's on a flush draw... likely the nut flush draw... so I just move it in... lol... he SNAP CALLS. I mean it... he doesn't even think. LOL... maybe he wasn't paying attention and didn't expect me to bet 163.4xbb

River: ($47.68, 2 players) 3

Hero shows A A (Two Pair, Aces and Threes) (PreFlop 93%, Flop 79%, Turn 91%)
UTG shows A 4 (One Pair, Threes) (PreFlop 7%, Flop 21%, Turn 9%)
Hero wins $0.00
Hero wins $45.68

Holy hell!!! I guess I underestimated his inability to fold a draw. I mean, stacking off 230xbb deep with a gut-shot... that's just awesome to a level that I am not used to.

On the bright side, I wasn't up against 4-5 or a set... lol... something I legitimately worried about when he snap called. I mean, I intended to charge him the full price for his draw... but damn.

[grimReaper]

lol sitting at the table with 7.5bi

8x pf seems a little big, but looks like now he's the perfect opponent for it. turn is such a shitty card, i'm not sure if i like getting 150x in on the turn...though maybe against a fish.

[frob23]

lol sitting at the table with 7.5bi

8x pf seems a little big, but looks like now he's the perfect opponent for it. turn is such a shitty card, i'm not sure if i like getting 150x in on the turn...though maybe against a fish.

Well, this player was 67/0 over 104 hands at this time... so I had adjusted by making my open-raises larger than usual when I wanted value. He really wanted to see flops and I was going to charge him for it when I had hands. I was raising less when I just wanted to isolate him and to get other people out. He has already shown that he likes to call down large bets with draws, chasing flushes against other people on the table in the recent past. He wasn't completely passive when he had a real hand... he would bet closer to pot and probably would raise on this flop with two pair+. So I really didn't expect him to have anything at all.

Granted, when he check/SNAPS 150xbb on that turn... I was sick for a second until I saw what he had.


Care to elaborate on why the turn is really shitty? 8-5, 8-T, 9-9, 9-7, 9-6... what else in his range does it improve to beat us? I mean... 9-7, 8-5, T-8 are really the only monster draws he has that improve there. Of course, he's not sane... so we can't assume those make up a lot of his range. He has a ton of A-X, K-X, and Q-X hands here that make up a larger portion of his flop calling range... and also his turn calling range for most large bets (if I didn't shove I was betting at least $9-$10 here to charge him) is almost his entire flop calling range... I know the over-bet shove probably took out some of the weakest parts of his flop calling range but I expect it to still be wide enough that the hands that were improved by the 9 don't make up a large portion.

[grimReaper]

When I wrote that, I thought it was an 8. Concerned with two pair. This guy will call a cbet atc it looks like, but in general if people are going to play SC in a 3bet pot, they're usually going to be 0 gappers. So 9Ts float also got there, had that been an 8.

[RAW_FORCE]

whales gonna whale nh

[frob23]

When I wrote that, I thought it was an 8. Concerned with two pair. This guy will call a cbet atc it looks like, but in general if people are going to play SC in a 3bet pot, they're usually going to be 0 gappers. So 9Ts float also got there, had that been an 8.

Yeah, an 8 is definitely a worse card. But I thought the 9 was pretty much as blank as it got. I admit, I wasn't thinking too much about straight or two pair draws here... I was mentally locked on the thought that he was likely there with a flush draw. I obviously narrowed his range far too much.

[liladypokerpro]

I sincerely hope you saved this guy to your "favorite ATMs" list

[Max Weiss]

To villain's credit, you can reasonably have a lower high PP, which would mean his ace is also an out fairly often. Still, it was awful.