Re: AA slaughtered
Hi Allinlife,
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yes..river was horrible...I would appreciate any advices on playing overpair OOP on drawy board..I have hard time determining whether or not to bet hard to give bad odds to draw on or to check and hope to keep the pot small?
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First of all, this isn't that draw-heavy of a board: the flush draw is backdoor, there was only one possible open-ended straight draw (and one dbb) on the flop, neither of which is likely given the button limp/call your raise line.
The cards you didn't want to see on the turn were a J, followed by T and 9--anything else is OK. I like to bet the pot or just under it (but substantially more than half)on flops like this, because a lot of folks won't call that much with just a gut-shot, but will call with top pair.
No reason to check that turn card unless you're check-raising, and even then it's a bad idea unless your opponent is very aggressive (because he could've called with a gut-shot and picked up an open-ender). Here, you can bet only 2/3 pot or so, and be safely denying him the implied odds he needs to call without a big draw.
Getting min-raised on the river usually means one pair is no good, but you ought to pay off another 104 or whatever.
The overall mistake you made in this hand was seeing monsters under the bed when you held a very strong hand; sure you might be beat, but this is a pretty nice board for AA, really.
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