That ever so tricky AQ
 

NL Hold'em Trny:9355442 Level:8 Blinds (150/300) - Monday, February 07, 16:49:15 EDT 2005
Table Multi-Table(237523) Table #6 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: accentland ( $1418 )
Seat 2: uncommon1 ( $8220 )
Seat 3: JCLUCKY ( $16913 )
Seat 4: etxcountry ( $5990 )
Seat 5: Letsditty ( $5603 )
Seat 6: estone09 ( $4428 )
Seat 7: utahadman ( $8428 )
Seat 8: hogging ( $400 )
Seat 9: norrisbruce ( $4927 )
Seat 10: peartree ( $11103 )
Trny:9355442 Level:9
Blinds (200/400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to norrisbruce [ Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ]
utahadman calls [400].
hogging folds.
norrisbruce raises [1200].
<font color="blue"> 3xBB, pretty standard </font>
peartree folds.
accentland folds.
uncommon1 folds.
JCLUCKY folds.
etxcountry folds.
Letsditty calls [1000].
estone09 folds.
utahadman calls [800].
** Dealing Flop ** [ A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ]
Letsditty checks.
utahadman checks.
norrisbruce bets [1000].
<font color="blue">1/4 the pot. Too big? Too small? I was trying to test the waters here w/o looking weak. </font>
Letsditty raises [4000].
<font color="blue"> This was the first hand after the break. I had just moved to this table about 10seconds before the break so no reads. I figure a weaker Ace, maybe AJ. I should have given more thought to this as I called pretty quickly. </font>
utahadman folds.
norrisbruce is all-In [2727]
** Dealing Turn ** [ K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ]

<font color="blue">What would have been your line here? Do you think I should have layed this down. Did I pot commit myself with that 1000 bet on the flop. Any help is appreciated </font>

Results in white below:

<font color="white"> Letsditty shows [ A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ] two pairs, aces and kings.
norrisbruce shows [ Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ] a pair of aces. </font>

Re: That ever so tricky AQ
 

bet more on the flop. you can't fold this hand. you got unlucky.

Re: That ever so tricky AQ
 

How much more on the flop? Should I just push em all in?

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you got unlucky

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Yeah, that's the first thing I thought when the cards were turned over. Sometimes AQ runs into AK. Wutcha gonna do.

Re: That ever so tricky AQ
 

Hum, AJ would be his ideal holding because your behind or splitting with any other calling ACE.

This is one of those situations where you are are pretty well pot committed and have no way out. Raising with AQ with 12xBB is basically going to pay AK of unless the flop comes K25 or something.

Re: That ever so tricky AQ
 

How much more should he bet on the flop? If he got raised after betting more on the flop would he fold or would he still be all in? If he was going to be all in anyway, should he just go all in on the flop?

Re: That ever so tricky AQ
 

I think he should just go all in. Typically I would value bet here of about half the pot. That kind of bet most certainly commits him for the rest of the hand with top pair so he should push.