10/20 AA on the button after everyone and their mother limps in
 

so i'm deep stacked... like 4.7k... i get dealt AA on the button after 4 limpers or so. i made it 150 but i immediately hated my play. 4 people called and the pot was already 750 so i lost 2000 to 55 on a T53 two tone flop... i told myself i would fold if big stacks give me significant action and if anyone with 2k or less does i will go all in... this is such a bad situation though.

how do we combat this?

i was thinking raising to 60 hoping someone with a mediocre hand smells weakness and tries to pick up dead money, and if no one does just playing very weakly...

the other option is raising to 300 but that sucks too.

any takers on this one?

Re: 10/20 AA on the button after everyone and their mother limps in
 

Just minraise. Great image play.

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Limp behind...for deception purposes!

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You're being results oriented here, usually you get 1-2 callers with the raise you made which is ideal. Also, what was the action with 55? I think that is a relevant question here, and i wouldnt sweat this too much. Making it 300 is dumb, making it 60 is dumber, and you made it a good amount. He flopped a set, you are going to lose lots of money here no matter what.

Re: 10/20 AA on the button after everyone and their mother limps in
 

problem is i am deep and a pocket pair is priced in preflop and guaranteed to make a lot of money. i'm not results oriented at all, i don't think... the action in the hand was everyone checks i bet pot, he goes all in which was basically a minraise more, i sigh and call.

thing is, SB instacalls me... this leads me to think if he has any sort of hand he would h ave repopped to isolate. that was results oriented but it sure got me thinking.

Re: 10/20 AA on the button after everyone and their mother limps in
 

small raise with so many limpers is not weakness no way in hell.

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thing is, SB instacalls me... this leads me to think if he has any sort of hand he would h ave repopped to isolate. that was results oriented but it sure got me thinking.

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Just for the record, the one person I would really watch out for in this sort of hand is the SB. He's the only one who called after seeing such a monster raise from a deepstack, so he has to have the sort of hand that will be willing to commit a ton of chips with postflop. I'm thinking that's a PP or SC almost always, and this is not a great flop for SC type hands, so I would really not be so eager to get it all in against him (I dunno, why bet pot on this flop anyway).

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i potted the flop because i am a scared little bitch. i had two people who had me covered and i was going to fold to their reraise. i was not, however, going to let them reraise me with a worse hand, and i thought the pot bet accomplished that.

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i potted the flop because i am a (1)scared (2)little (3)bitch.

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2 of those adjectives seem right
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i had two people who had me covered and i was going to fold to their reraise. i was not, however, going to let them reraise me with a worse hand, and i thought the pot bet accomplished that.

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meh. [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Re: 10/20 AA on the button after everyone and their mother limps in
 

I can't think of any other way but to pop limpers with wider range of hands in position