AJo in EP - drunk night at stars

[Kips Bay Kid]

Ok let me have it, this is probably the case of doing everything WRONG...I wish I had to take a field sobriety test before logging in at night...

Hero ($217) is UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Villain ($591) has been playing ABC poker, my image is LAG (but still folding enough not to be considered a maniac, sat down with $200 up $17 at this point)

PF:
Hero raises to $6, 3 folds, MP3 (Villain) calls, 2 folds, SB calls

Pot: $20
Flop: 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, Villain bets $8, SB folds, Hero calls

Pot: $36
Turn: 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, Villain bets $22, Hero raises to $75, Villain calls

Pot: $186
Riv: 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, Villain bets $38, Hero calls

Final Pot: $262

[amoeba]

why are there two jack of clubs?

[jtr]

First up, either you drank a few too many or Pokerstars is messing you around, as there are two J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]s in that deck.

Apart from that, the hand doesn't look all that crazy to me. Personally I wouldn't have made the preflop raise with AJo in that position, but after that I don't think you played it horribly.

I would be inclined to make a significant raise immediately on the flop and be happy to take it there, I guess. But you decided to be more courageous and make your move on the turn. OK, sounds good. It's scary that he calls this $75 raise, and if you say he's an ABC player then I am thinking it's not the flush draw, but rather a beatable overpair like QQ. Still, for $38 on the river I believe you have to call.

What were the blind sizes, by the way?

[Kips Bay Kid]

BLinds are $1/$2

Sorry I mixed that up should be A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

[schwza]

i'd fold AJ utg.

i'd bet the flop, as there are a lot of scare cards (pretty much anything makes a straight or is an overcard).

if i check-called the flop and checked the turn, i'd just call. your hand is not so good that you want to build a big pot. also, making a very small check-raise is not going to drive out any draws, and you're just going to leave yourself in an unfortunate spot on the river.

i'd put out a small blocking bet on the end. you might get called by a worse hand, and you might fold out a better hand. but i'd be very surprised if you got raised by a set or worse, which is nice for your hand.

[dmk]

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i'd fold AJ utg.

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why

[Kips Bay Kid]

Hi schwza -

I cross posted this in the mid-high NL forum only because the stacks seemed like they were deep enough, feel free to check out the feedback I got there as well as my thinking during this hand:

Mid-High NL post

Since I pegged him as an abc player I didn't see him holding cards that fill a low straight after calling my PF raise from UTG for a full ring table (he was not seeing many flops, unfortunately I did not key in on this until after checking my HH the next day).

[dmk]

ignore this post, i was thinking it was 6max...