300/600 AA spewing...
 

Button raises, SB 3-bets and I just call with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in the BB, button caps, we both call.

Now, I haven't seen Button cap before, he is not the type to do the freeplay cap. SB will raise a large variety of hands here.

Flop: 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

SB bets, I call, Button raises (I now put him on an overpair), we both call.

Turn: T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Checked to Button who bets, SB calls, I checkraise, Button 3-bets, SB calls, I cap, both call.

River: 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

SB checks, I bet, both call. I bet the river, because I think I can fold to a raise and I also would have to call a bet and when Button has KK I collect 1BB (provided SB didn't get there).

Re: 300/600 AA spewing...
 

i kept waiting for the part where you spew and it didnt come. i think you played this one fine.

and bet-folding the river in a huge pot at 300-600 (where the players tend to be trickier) seems like a bad idea. bet-calling would be fine.

Re: 300/600 AA spewing...
 

You played it good, although looks like you might have lost to a flush out of the sb.

Re: 300/600 AA spewing...
 

It's aggressive, but I think you played it perfectly on all streets. I actually the think the SB is your main competition here, not the button, who has made it clear that he has a 2nd best pocket pair and doesn't believe you have the T.

my 2 cents.
eric

Re: 300/600 AA spewing...
 

Why not cap preflop, a call means a decent hand anyway and you would cap with a wide range, right?

Re: 300/600 AA spewing...
 

I think you played it brilliantly. Don't like your comment about folding to a raise tho. You play that game with any kind of regularity and do this once or twice and you will have people making moves against you left and right, which will then put you into a defensive position of having to check you marginal hands instead of betting for value. Don't worry so hard about saving that one bet when there's twenty in the pot.

I would've played your hand more conservatively, by raising the flop just because I don't even want the button if he has 99 to peel one off. And if he happens to have KK, he'd probably reraise which may drive out the SB who may have something like QT. When the pot's capped pre-flop, I tend to try my hardest to win it rather than getting more money in. But if I knew that I could get 4 bets in on the turn 3 way like you did, it might've been worth the risk.

Re: 300/600 AA spewing...
 

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i kept waiting for the part where you spew and it didnt come.

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almost my thought exactly.

you put the guy squarely on an overpair, and played the hand perfectly according to that read. sb has shown no strength whatsoever. i would guess that you won a big pot

ni han

Re: 300/600 AA spewing...
 

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you put the guy squarely on an overpair, and played the hand perfectly according to that read.

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Except for the folding to a river raise part.

Re: 300/600 AA spewing...
 

I'm surprised you didn't raise the flop.

Re: 300/600 AA spewing...
 

As others have stated, I think this hand was expertly played. At first I thought that 3betting the flop would have been best (I'm still not sure it isn't, your hand doesn't really look like AA there, more like Abig diamonds that didn't want to pressure the button, but now wants more money in the pot.) If you can count on the button to bet the turn, however, I like the slow play. Having the turn checked through would be a disaster.

lf