Ho Hum Hand : AKs in the CO

[GuyOnTilt]

Party's 15, 8-handed. It's folded to me in the CO and I raise with A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. The Button folds, a fishy loose aggressive SB calls, a decently tight but a little too passive BB calls. 3 to the flop for 6 SB's.

Flop comes: J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]6 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

SB bets, BB raises. I 3-bet, SB calls, BB calls. 3 to the turn for 6 BB's.

Turn comes: T [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

Checked around.

River comes: T [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

SB bets, BB calls, I fold.

GoT

[potato]

Did you consider folding the flop?

[bernie]

I like it. But i've been playing pretty aggressively, probably overaggressive, lately so i could be wrong.

b

[RoodyPooh]

Calling, Raising, and Folding all seem pretty close on the flop. Rest of the hand looks fine.

[DrSavage]

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Calling, Raising, and Folding all seem pretty close on the flop. Rest of the hand looks fine.

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Calling seems awful. Raising is fine to try and clean up your outs and take a free card, once SB calls 2 more cold you're done here unless you improve.

[RoodyPooh]

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Calling seems awful. Raising is fine to try and clean up your outs and take a free card, once SB calls 2 more cold you're done here unless you improve.

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I lean most toward 3 betting also, but I don't think calling would be awful. After I thought about it, I don't think folding is close. But I think it's close between raising and calling. Someone will probably prove me wrong though.

[lostinthought]

I like 3 betting here, as it cleans your outs, and paralyzes the other players into giving you a free card on the turn.

oh BTW- I would probably fold to a turn bet unimproved.

Well played.

[1800GAMBLER]

No one ever folds a pair when they have already put a bet in on that street in these games, this 'clean up your outs' has no benefit if they have a pair with an ace or a king kicker the only way you are getting them to fold it is if you invent a way to shoot people over the internet.

[2005]

I think calling 2 is really bad... you're getting 3-1 on your call and you could be reverse dominated quite easily due to the proliferation of calling with crap aces from the blinds in these games. I don't like 3-betting that much, though it's much better than calling. I would normally fold in this situation unless I had a good read on these two players and knew they both bluff too much.

Gavin

http://www.gavingriffin.com

[ike]

There's a bet, passive guy raises, so you make it 3 with overs? I'm usually just folding this flop. If you're gonna stay in though, raising is far better than calling. I'd say that in this spot i'm 80% fold 20% raise never call. The turn and river are very straightforward.