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B40
01-16-2005, 01:47 PM
How do you play your strong hands like AA or KK?

I just played a tourny with this hand:

Table Table 12255 (Real Money) -- Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 1: DADDYPOPS (540)
Seat 3: cjrinma (770)
Seat 4: rbehr00 (755)
Seat 5: B40 (890)
Seat 6: pDripping (740)
Seat 7: bigant9090 (2005)
Seat 8: Realmaleman (1370)
Seat 9: STEDMEN (930)
DADDYPOPS posts small blind (10)
cjrinma posts big blind (15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to B40 [ Qh, Qs ]
rbehr00 folds.
B40 raises (890) to 890
B40 is all-In.
pDripping calls (740)
pDripping is all-In.
bigant9090 folds.
Realmaleman folds.
STEDMEN folds.
DADDYPOPS folds.
cjrinma folds.
Creating Main Pot with $1505 with pDripping
Creating Side Pot 1 with $150 with B40
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ac, Ad, 6d ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Qc ]
** Dealing River ** : [ 8d ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 1505 | Side Pot 1: 150
Board: [ Ac Ad 6d Qc 8d ]
DADDYPOPS balance 530, lost 10 (folded)
cjrinma balance 755, lost 15 (folded)
rbehr00 balance 755, didn't bet (folded)
B40 balance 150, bet 890, collected 150, lost -740 [ Qh Qs ] [ a full house, Queens full of aces -- Ac,Ad,Qh,Qs,Qc ]
pDripping balance 1505, bet 740, collected 1505, net +765 [ Ah As ] [ four of a kind, aces -- Ah,As,Ac,Ad,Qc ]
bigant9090 balance 2005, didn't bet (folded)
Realmaleman balance 1370, didn't bet (folded)
STEDMEN balance 930, didn't bet (folded)

I realized I made a mistake by pushing all in in that position, but how often do you come across QQ or KK vs. AA? On the flip side, if I slow played it and just called, I would have been pissed seeing the flop and thinking someone out drew me with Ace rag (assuming they'd make a big raise to which I'd fold and would have never seen that he had AA).

Mind you, I came back from $150 in that tourny and won 1st place.

Insty
01-16-2005, 03:07 PM
A bit early to be pushing perhaps..

Then again AA was always going to come over the top of you anyway.
not much you could do about it.

Not so much wrong as unlucky.

B40
01-16-2005, 09:29 PM
Happend to me again a few hands later, had QQ, first to act pre flop and just checked. Early in tourny, everyone had about 800 chips, someone raises 100, I call, Ace on flop, person who raised 100 makes a big raise, I fold, the other guy in the hand calls. Turns out he had AA again. That's twice in about 3 tournys I had QQ and someone else had AA...