Is he a genius?!

[Hakimakli]

How can he be such a genius to know I'm gonna push the river ?!
Of course a suck out, but can I play it any better?

Full Tilt Poker Game #12045833321: Table Gentle Falls - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:25:17 ET - 2009/05/05
Seat 1: Hakimakli ($250.60)
Seat 2: crazygambleur ($20)
Seat 3: ShosuroA ($113.70)
Seat 4: MavRus ($16.50)
Seat 5: wheatrich ($125.75)
Seat 6: hermansnoozy ($154.40)
Seat 7: GermanAngst ($21.50)
Seat 8: Buddylistme ($100)
Seat 9: TooLateToPlay ($122.25)
MavRus posts the small blind of $0.50
wheatrich posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hakimakli [8c 8s]
hermansnoozy calls $1
GermanAngst folds
Buddylistme has 15 seconds left to act
Buddylistme folds
TooLateToPlay folds
Hakimakli calls $1
crazygambleur calls $1
ShosuroA folds
MavRus folds
wheatrich raises to $5.50
hermansnoozy folds
Hakimakli calls $4.50
crazygambleur folds
crazygambleur adds $1
*** FLOP *** [5s Qh 8d]
wheatrich bets $5
Hakimakli calls $5
*** TURN *** [5s Qh 8d] [7c]
wheatrich checks
Hakimakli bets $23.50
wheatrich calls $23.50
*** RIVER *** [5s Qh 8d 7c] [Ac]
wheatrich checks
Hakimakli bets $216.60, and is all in
wheatrich calls $91.75, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $124.85 returned to Hakimakli
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hakimakli shows [8c 8s] three of a kind, Eights
wheatrich shows [Ah As] three of a kind, Aces
wheatrich wins the pot ($251) with three of a kind, Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $254 | Rake $3
Board: [5s Qh 8d 7c Ac]
Seat 1: Hakimakli showed [8c 8s] and lost with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 2: crazygambleur folded before the Flop
Seat 3: ShosuroA (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: MavRus (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: wheatrich (big blind) showed [Ah As] and won ($251) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 6: hermansnoozy folded before the Flop
Seat 7: GermanAngst didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: Buddylistme didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: TooLateToPlay didn't bet (folded)

[HeyKidMove]

He probably didn't know you were going to push the river, but what confident that you would bet. He could have chosen to value bet the river but probably thought it would be more profitable to allow you to bet. I don't think he played the hand very well though, but your pf like did scream pp so he might have wanted to pot control. The only thing I think you should have done is raise the flop.

[don. scoobie]

maybe he knows u as a consistently thin value bettor on the river and planned a re-raise to get u pot committed

[Squirkle]

Im guessing he wanted to show weakness by checking the scary Ace therefore giving you what seemed like an opportunity to steal or bet what you thought was the winning hand!!!
the money was going all in regardless but would of pot bet the flop and tried to get it all in on turn but thats just me..

[BadMoles]

You play at a significantly higher level than me - so it's probably fair to say you are a better player than me, but one thing from that report is standing out a mile...

...why on earth did you limp in that position with that hand? Had you made a proper pre-flop raise it's likely the other guy would have raised you - therefore giving you information and the chance to put him on a hand. How many hands re-raise preflop? AA and KK are standard re-raises right?

No only that but he would have had some information on you and when you hit your trips you should have made a significant bet to define your hand and when he raised you with his AA holding you could have re-raised with the trips - waving a HUGE warning flag to him that you had in fact made your hand and cracked his aces.

Now admittedly you wouldn't actually want him leaving the pot at this stage as you had him totally dominated so you were probably destined to lose this hand anyway, but if he had folded and you took the pot on flop or the turn then surely that would have been a better result for you than losing a $250+ pot?

Just my tuppence worth, but I really think you gave him no opportunity to fold and therefore the chance to out-draw you. Which he did. Bad luck

[Horoeschio]

You can question this play all you want, the end result will be the same. The money is going in on this board. As if he'd ever fold his aces .. this is a cash game, not the final table of the main event. Life goes on.

Oh and his check on the river .. feels great if it works, sucks if the victim checks behind.

[Hakimakli]

when the money is gone it's time to move on:-)
i think everything is said;-)
i'm runnig pretty good atm, so i don't care anymore about this hand...
gl at the tables..