Paradise 50,000 hand.

[Colombo]

Ok, so im doing pretty good in this thing, prob about 1 and a half hours in, im sitting pretty in around 30th place, this hand was my first hand at the table, and i get into a hand with the chip leader.

Did i play this hand fine?

Considering it was against the Chip Leader, what, if anything, did i do right or wrong?

Seat 1: Frankie Tank (2,927 in chips)
Seat 2: Villian (28,003 in chips)
Seat 3: xjs72 (7,045 in chips)
Seat 4: lancdaddy1 (41,870 in chips)
Seat 5: beaufortone (7,795 in chips)
Seat 6: BuckNekad (15,877 in chips)
Seat 7: smazenysyr (10,171 in chips)
Seat 8: great one (2,333 in chips)
Seat 9: BOCEAVIS (10,735 in chips)
Seat 10: = Colombo = (18,395 in chips)
Villian: Ante (25)
xjs72 : Ante (25)
lancdaddy1: Ante (25)
beaufortone: Ante (25)
BuckNekad: Ante (25)
smazenysyr: Ante (25)
great one: Ante (25)
BOCEAVIS: Ante (25)
= Colombo =: Ante (25)
Frankie Tank: Ante (25)
lancdaddy1: Post Small Blind (100)
beaufortone: Post Big Blind (200)
Dealing...
Dealt to = Colombo = [ Qd ]
Dealt to = Colombo = [ As ]
BuckNekad: Fold
smazenysyr: Fold
great one: Fold
BOCEAVIS: Fold
= Colombo =: Raise (700)
Frankie Tank: Fold
Villian: Raise (2,000)
xjs72 : Fold
lancdaddy1: Fold
beaufortone: Fold
= Colombo =: Call (1,300)
*** FLOP *** : [ 7h 4s Ac ]
= Colombo =: Check
Villian: Bet (4,000)
= Colombo =: Call (4,000)
*** TURN *** : [ 7h 4s Ac ] [ 8d ]
= Colombo =: Check
Villian: Bet (11,000)
= Colombo =: Raise All-in (12,370)
Villian: Call (1,370)
*** RIVER *** : [ 7h 4s Ac 8d ] [ 5s ]

[Colombo]

fold preflop despite good pot odds?

[Brad F.]

Put pot odds aside here. I don't think they are relevant at all unless you can put your villian on a specific hand first.

What do you think he is reraising you with here? A-J? K-Q? JJ? Maybe JJ or even possibly 10-10, but you against most hand that reraise in this spot (AA,KK,QQ,AK) you are totally dominated. Why risk your whole stack against someone that can break you with a marginal hand here like AQ?

Once you decide to call you have decided to give your stack away to AK or AA when that flop hits. If you did get lucky and he had JJ or something, then great, but reraising here means that this guy does mean business. AQ isn't something I want to take to war in this situation.

Brad

Unless one of the players involved is under fairly extreme blind pressure I dump AQ to a pre-flop reraise - the domination factor is far too high and when I hit my hand my opponent can put me on the hand I hit far too easily - no need to get involved at this point as you still have a very healthy stack if you fold

[RedRum]

In this hand I will lead out on the flop, probably 3k or so. If he reraises in this situation I can know better whether to lay down what I thought was a good hand.

I had this exact situation in a live tourney a month ago, I open raised PF, lead into the A high uncoordinated flop and was able to lay it down to a reraise. He showed me the AK after I mucked.

Drink More,
RedRum

[schwza]

fold to 3bet pre-flop. only AQx or QQx are really good flops for you.

once you see a flop, i think your line is fine.