Lost_Dogs
10-07-2004, 05:17 PM
I was just in Vegas this past weekend, and I played a live game for the first time. I was playing 1-3 hold'em at Excalibur. Overall, I got crushed, but there were 3 or 4 hands with large pots that I thought I played right but wound up losing. Here's one, and I'm wondering if I was too aggressive or if it was just bad luck.
I had pocket aces and raised pre-flop. I was re-raised by the person right after me, and wound up calling. At this point it was just the two of us in the game, as everybody else folded. The flop was AKK, giving me Aces over Kings. In my mind, I had to go for it all. I raised, he re-raised, I re-raised and capped it off. The next two rounds, the same thing happened (a 4 and an 8 were on the Turn and River...i wasn't worried about suits, as a flush counldn't beat me). After capping the river, I showed my full house and he showed his 4 K's. Considering his re-raise pre-flop and him being aggressive, the thought of KK was in the back of my mind. However, there were more hands that he could've had pre-flop that would've fit into his betting (AK, KQ, KJ, etc). How would you have played this hand?
I had pocket aces and raised pre-flop. I was re-raised by the person right after me, and wound up calling. At this point it was just the two of us in the game, as everybody else folded. The flop was AKK, giving me Aces over Kings. In my mind, I had to go for it all. I raised, he re-raised, I re-raised and capped it off. The next two rounds, the same thing happened (a 4 and an 8 were on the Turn and River...i wasn't worried about suits, as a flush counldn't beat me). After capping the river, I showed my full house and he showed his 4 K's. Considering his re-raise pre-flop and him being aggressive, the thought of KK was in the back of my mind. However, there were more hands that he could've had pre-flop that would've fit into his betting (AK, KQ, KJ, etc). How would you have played this hand?