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Old 07-31-2004, 11:39 AM
sherbert sherbert is offline
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Default Re: Playing Aces after the flop

Depends how much you like to gamble. Preflop reraise is fine - you want to isolate the button - who could be raising a pretty random hand.
Plan fails because you get called by moron UTG.

If the button had poor odds to call your raise, they've gone up much more with UTG calling.

It's clear that UTG could have anything. This is a flop that could have hit both of of them very hard. However, there is a rationale to taking a swing at the pot one time in X.

After all, that flop is just as scary to them. What if you've got JQKK? Ot TTJQ? Check fold is probably the best play, but if you discount the UTG's holding, you are essentially in a HU situation - and you'd be right to take a swing at the pot more often than just 1 in four times I'd say.

Don't forget that any play you make here feeds through to other plays later in the session. If it goes bet raise fold fold, then that's useful down the road, when you really do connect with flop. People will be more likely to take a shot at you and then you can play for their full stack.

Obviously if you're called, whether by UTG or button, you have to switch off.

I think it's closer than the other posters would have although marginal either way.
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