a sky hand what do you?

screwy27

colinarsen	Small blind		10.00	10.00	2060.00
moorey80	Big blind		20.00	30.00	2240.00
	Your hole cards	A A
nervesof	Fold
KERRAKAJAC	Fold
screwy27	Raise		40.00	70.00	1870.00
Razzleraz1	Fold
colinarsen	Call		30.00	100.00	2030.00
moorey80	Call		20.00	120.00	2220.00
Flop
		5 3 2
colinarsen	Check
moorey80	Check
screwy27	Bet		120.00	240.00	1750.00
colinarsen	Call		120.00	360.00	1910.00
moorey80	Fold
Turn
		10
colinarsen	Check
screwy27	Bet		360.00	720.00	1390.00
colinarsen	Call		360.00	1080.00	1550.00
River
		A
colinarsen	Check
screwy27	All-in		1390.00	2470.00	0.00
colinarsen	All-in		1550.00	4020.00	0.00
colinarsen	Unmatched bet		160.00	3860.00	160.00
colinarsen	Show	4 4
screwy27	Show	A A
colinarsen	Win	Straight to the 5	3860.00

only a freerol as that's all I play on here now as these are the hands I always get

calcalfold

sure they got lucly, but min raise pre, in a freeroll? with those stacks? really??

craigcu12

that preflop and river were played backwards

1. min betting preflop this is a freeroll you are in and freeroll means very loose callers 5-7 is the sizes you want some villians will jam with anything preflop.

2.now that you have give such a cheap flop they could have any 2 cards that means a 4

3. these tournaments villians will chase draws all the way so you might have a set now but 4 is beating you plus the chances are two pair hands would have jammed on the turn and as you hold 2 aces how often do you expect him to hold an A.

Jac35

Confused by title of thread

BorinLoner

In Response to Re: a sky hand what do you?:

look at your play it is played terrible alot of leaks here on not to play aa  firstly raise bigger pre then bet flop bigger turn bigger then river still same outcome possibly but that woulda been the correct way 
Posted by IDONKCALLU

You're criticising him for not overbetting the pot on flop and turn? A bit harsh, I think.


Seriously, this hand isn't too badly played at all. However, AA is not a guarantee of winning the hand and we shouldn't think of it that way. Sometimes we will be outdrawn, but that's the game.

When you hit your set on the river, I don't mind the shove but you have to ask what you're going to be called by. If your opponent is holding, let's say, 88 here is he going to call his stack off? This might be one of those situations where you want to bet a little smaller because it's hard for your opponent to have a hand strong enough to stack off with.

However, treating your top set as the nuts on this board isn't a bad thing and, if your opponent might think that you're trying to bluff and represent the Ace on the river, then the shove isn't wrong. It's just really hard for your opponent to have an Ace himself so you're basically hoping to be called by two-pair or a weaker set most of the time.

It's unlucky that your opponent had 44. I would agree that you could raise more pre-flop because it's early doors, you're all playing deep stacks and your opponents are likely to call for a bigger raise pre-flop with the same range that they'd call this min-raise.

The only real issue I'd take with your play, however, is that you are bashing the "pot" button post-flop. Most of the time this makes your hand look exactly like what it is: an overpair. If you had AQ on this flop, what size would you make your bet?

Size your bets away from the automatic buttons that you're given. On this flop, why is 120 a better sizing than 110 or 130? If your answer is that it's "easier" then you're not thinking enough about your bets.