Good preflop plan? (AKs)

[Nate tha' Great]

Party 15/30 game. An unknown player raises in EMP. A regular, who plays a little too aggressively preflop but competetently postflop, 3-bets in LMP. It's folded to me in the BB with A /images/graemlins/club.gif K /images/graemlins/club.gif.

Rather than cap, I cold call.

Does this play have any merit?

The idea was that I was going to be able to make more money if an Ace or a King flopped since my hand would be better concealed, but when the flop came A-rag-rag, and I checked and called, and LMP checked behind on a blank turn, I just felt like a moron. She did pay off on the river with her QQ at least. One problem I think is that I'm not typically cold-calling a lot, so my opponent probably gave me credit for a strong hand.

[Clarkmeister]

Yeah, that's totally fine.

[nykenny]

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Rather than cap, I cold call.

Does this play have any merit?


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i also agree with your call here, i think it's the best play. capping is ridiculous to me.

i think flop bet is best or c/r, since what you really hope for is another A is out there and gives u alot of action or the under pocket pair KK, QQ doubt you enough to call down weakly. if you are raised u can either reraise or stop and go depending on the situation...

my $0.02

[Nightwish]

When you call 2 bets cold in the BB, your opponents will automatically put you on either a pocket pair or Ax, where x is pretty high (maybe KQs too). Since that's the same range of hands that you'll cap with, there's no point hiding it. That's why I think you'll get more value out of your hand when you cap preflop.

[chesspain]

Nate,

Did you forget to mention that coldcalling preflop also allows you to see how well the initial raiser likes his hand (by whether he caps or simply calls)?

[Nate tha' Great]

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Nate,

Did you forget to mention that coldcalling preflop also allows you to see how well the initial raiser likes his hand (by whether he caps or simply calls)?

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Yeah, guess I did. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I can be uncomfortable though with the postflop sequences after I don't raise in a spot that I normally would, so while this play might be +EV, I don't know that it's +EV for me.

[ZeeJustin]

I agree with those that say call.

Mike Caro had an interesting audio file on some website saqying the merits of calling rather than raising or reraising preflop from the blinds.