How not to play AA

(limon will love this one.)


Four handed.


2-3-5 10 to go.


Stacks are all around 300 - 600, I have a little over 500.


UTG opens for 10. I call on the button, both blinds come in.


Flop is T88.


Big blind bets 25, UTG calls, I call.

Turn is a Q. Big blind bets 25, UTG raises to 100 (he has about 125 left and big blind has me covered). I call, big blind calls.


River is a 2.


Big blind checks, UTG goes all -in for 125 more, I raise all-in behind. Big blind folds AA face up. UTG loses with J9 for a straight. Yet another successful slowplay. I'm starting to come around on that.


natedogg

Who played the hand worse? I suppose the big blind did by not

raising BTF, but I still have to question UTG's call on the flop with a paired board, with action behind him.


Bruce

Especially since what he was really hoping to happen happened: the button only called behind, so he got good odds on his draw.


Of course, he was drawing dead....


Sorry to have missed the game, Nate. I'll make it at some point, even though it's a bit of a trek to get across the bay.


- target

im a little confused. did you have J9? what did utg have?


wouldnt it have been better to just call on the river so bb might overcall with hands like AA? instead you raised all in.

Nate,


Who had what hand? Confused.

Sorry for the confusion. The big blind had AA. UTG had J9. I had T8.


The board was T88Q2 in that order.


The game was 4 handed. Thus, UTG is first to act preflop and he limped. I limped on the button, and the two blinds came in as well. That's right, the big blind did not raise pre-flop even though he had AA!


natedogg

nate where and when is this game?

theres really nothin to say. everybody played aweful except you. small stacks for a 235-10 game. i expect these players are inexperienced.if bb raises to 50 no one can call with the stacksso small.

then why did you raise all in on the river? wouldnt you want to have smoothcalled to try and induce an overcall from the BB?


obviously you were going all in anyways if he had TT or QQ and was severely slowplaying them, but this way you would have possibly gotten an overcall from an overpair, the case 8, QT, and maybe some other hands.


what do you think? i just dont see what the point of going all in here was.

This was the first time I've ever seen the big blind lay down top pair or better on any street for any amount of chips.


natedogg