AA v wet flop

grantos888

When you have AA and the flop comes down with straight and flush oportunities for a suit other than the ones you hold i.e.  Kh 10h Qd what is the "right" or "best" way to pay this?

I tend to push all in

LnarinOO

jus think about the ranges ur up against.... this kinda flop is generally gonna hit there calling range in a raised pot..but

jus shoving all in is playin quite scared and losing alot of 'value'...and value is KEY because thats how we make money..! 

yes there is a chance u may be beat by 2 pair+ but wen u shove there the ones that are gonna snap call.. and all the other hands get a chance to fold..! 

dont be scared to get outdrawn, its the wrong way to play poker.. jus VALUE bet wen u think worse hands can call and re-evaluate on each street.. 

 

jugglegeek

The other problem with shoving all in is that your opponent can only call with a hand that beats you if you over bet the pot. Say you have AA with 30BBs you raise to 2.5x and see a 9dTsJs flop with the big blind the pot is now 5.5x big blind. If you shove here and the opponent has more chips than you then you are only ever getting called by big draws where you are 50:50 or made hands that have you crushed. You will win lots of small pots and a few big pots this way.

You can't deduce what your opponent has just from one street of betting so you need to get more info. If you are deepstacked and you run AA on a scary flop you should probably fire out a 3/4 pot c-bet and see what happens. If you get a flat call then you can re-**** on the turn; if you get raised then you need to wonder if this is a semi-bluff with a big draw.