How is my play here?

[theordinaryboy]

Hey there

How was my play here? In particular the pre-flop raise, the turn check and the river call? cheers


***** Hand History for Game 1729875948 *****
NL Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee Trny:10355049 Level:1 Blinds(10/15) - Sunday, March 13, 13:34:00 EDT 2005
Table Step 2 #983559 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 3: jlumper ( $985 )
Seat 4: tK_flop ( $1000 )
Seat 5: HENRY_5 ( $1060 )
Seat 9: Hero ( $1000 )
Seat 2: poslamik ( $985 )
Seat 10: tr4i0be ( $985 )
Seat 8: chinooky ( $1000 )
Seat 7: Deep_Cheese ( $1000 )
Seat 1: mad_Alex ( $985 )
Seat 6: hitch11564 ( $1000 )
Trny:10355049 Level:1
Blinds(10/15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Ah Kh ]
jlumper folds.
tK_flop folds.
HENRY_5 calls [15].
hitch11564 folds.
Deep_Cheese raises [65].
chinooky folds.
Hero raises [150].
tr4i0be folds.
mad_Alex folds.
poslamik folds.
HENRY_5 folds.
Deep_Cheese calls [85].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6h, 9h, 3d ]
Deep_Cheese checks.
Hero bets [200].
Deep_Cheese calls [200].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
Deep_Cheese checks.
Hero checks.
** Dealing River ** [ Ad ]
Deep_Cheese bets [400].
Hero calls [400].

[RobGW]

On the river you have to at least call, but by calling you only have $250 left. I would think your AA are good here and I would try to get the rest of my money in. What hands could he have that beat you? 66 or 99. I would think you would have known about it if he had one of those hands. OTOH, he could have something like AK-AJ or a big PP. You split with AK but you win AQ-AJ. The pot is so big at this point I think he'd call with a lot of hands you beat. I think if your going to reraise with AK pre flop you should get the rest of your money in here when you hit your A.

[microbet]

What Rob said.

Preflop you pretty much establish he doesn't have AA or KK.

On the flop you pretty much establish he doesn't have trips and 2 pair on this board is out.

On the turn I would think you are behind a pocket pair since he probably doesn't have a heart draw. He could have called the flop with just overcards, but not too likely.

On the river, what beats you? Another Ace or PP over 9 probably calls.

Of course the fact that this hand is posted increases the likelyhood that you lost, so maybe he was slowplaying AA all along. I suppose once he got you HU preflop he might slowplay Aces and then just take a chance that you didn't have a heart draw.