thoughts on a hand i played at the casino please

jams88

Im in Canada atm and thelow stakes live poker seen in Banff is non exsistant so i thought i would check out the local casino for a cash game yesterday evening. Im playing $1/$2 no limit holdem not rolled in the slightest for these stakes but i took $150 the casino that i could afford to lose and was looking forward to an evening of cards.

The hand im not sure about involves me picking up AA in the BB. A small stack who has just lost a large pot and has about $40 left shoves pre from early position from what i can tell he is not a god player and is on tilt looking for a double up or going out. The shove is called by 1 player in the CO a prety solid player only seen him pkay good cards. Action then comes to me with just the raiser and caller in the pot i shoved and the caller folded so i successfully isolated the small stack and won the hand against a K10o standard. My question is when in a hand like this what is the corect play pre should i have just flatted and maybe got more value off the other player to? Obviuously the odds of my aces holding is less the more players are in the hand but do i want the pther player in? This is a situation the pops up occasionally when i play nl8 to so am just looking for peoples thoughts on how to play cheers

James

sonnyjimmy

shove pre is the correct play here imo. if you was sitting a bit deeper with 100-200bb then a 3-bet of around $120-140 would be alright. NH

AMYBR

Without having any info on players, stack sizes dynamic its almost impossible to give an answer tbh.

Strong arguments can easily be made for re shoving and flatting.  If the info you had at time says the solid guy stationing the shove calls the reshove then its right.

But neither approach can really be called definatevely wrong from an armchair.

I may flat, I may shove.  Whichever I feel gives me the most value.  But Obv not reshoving looking for a fold, only reshoving if we believe he likely calls.

simonnatur

Maybe this is the right play if you are not bankrolled for the game. 

Otherwise you are effectively heads up with AA for the majority of your stack, so the obvious play is to flat call knowing you only have a less than pot size bet left on the flop and are very likely to get paid if your opponent catches a piece of it.

jams88

In Response to Re: thoughts on a hand i played at the casino please:

Without having any info on players, stack sizes dynamic its almost impossible to give an answer tbh. Strong arguments can easily be made for re shoving and flatting.  If the info you had at time says the solid guy stationing the shove calls the reshove then its right. But neither approach can really be called definatevely wrong from an armchair. I may flat, I may shove.  Whichever I feel gives me the most value.  But Obv not reshoving looking for a fold, only reshoving if we believe he likely calls.
Posted by AMYBR

Cheers this was the main thing i was unsure of

rancid

No need to iso with AA
Depends what oppo stack is, does oppo cover you or not ?

If oppo has £80-$130 - shove
If oppo has you covered then flat
Any shove will scare the siht out of oppo )

grantorino

depends on how co plays, but I would flat a lot. Why do you want to isolate shorty? What are stacksizes of you and CO?

jams88

I made the move to iso in the end mainly because im not used to/ comfortable playing these stakes there was around $80 already in the pot which is alot of money to me lol so i was happy to just win that (presuming my hand held) Whereas in my head at the time although im calling or shoving any flop bet i saw it as playing the hand against 2 other hands instead on 1 decreasing the chance that my AA holds. In hindsight probably should have flatted and built a sidepot to but the big numbers scared me.

I had about another $80 behind and the CO had about $200