What a mess I made--AQs

StellarWind · #1 05-12-2004, 09:13 AM

This hand has been bothering me for several days. It is from one of my first sessions at 2/4 and things were not going well. When MP2 raised me (again!) I got pretty irritated and the rest of a hand was a struggle with myself as well as the table. Yeah, I know ... not good.

Paradise Poker 2/4 Hold'em (9 handed) converter
About 35% preflop/Pretty aggressive. MP2 is a LAG who has stung me several times with dubious preflop raises. UTG is a very flaky player whose main objective is becoming shortstacked so he can go all-in on an early street. Once he gets in striking distance of all-in on a hand his raises show little more than two cards. In this case however he "unluckily" still has 15+ BB so we can expect more cautious but not necessarily more intelligent play.

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, Hero raises, MP2 3-bets, MP3 folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB folds, BB calls, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, Hero calls.

Should I have capped this 5-way?

Flop: (15.50 SB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (5 players) 
BB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, Hero bets, MP2 calls, BB calls, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls.

Turn: (10.25 BB) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (5 players) 
BB checks, UTG bets, UTG+1 folds, Hero raises, MP2 calls, BB folds, UTG 3-bets, Hero caps, MP2 calls, UTG calls.

This was me??? This is embarrassing. Tilt. Does the first raise have any merit?

River: (22.25 BB) 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 players) 
UTG bets, Hero calls, MP2 folds.

Final Pot: 24.25 BB
Main Pot: 24.25 BB, between UTG and Hero.