AQ w/ position: flop is Axx rainbow...he pushes

#1 08-15-2005, 05:41 PM

Nothing remarkable has occurred yet. Lost a few chips w/ flush draw earlier in a multi-way pot. The villain has been low key.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (7 handed) converter

MP1 (t1605)
MP2 (t1110)
Hero (t1045)
Button (t990)
SB (t1475)
BB (t4715)
UTG (t2560)

Preflop: Hero is CO with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
1 fold, MP1 calls t50, 1 fold, Hero raises to t200, 3 folds, MP1 calls t150.

Flop: (t475) A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
MP1 bets t1405 (All-In), Hero's action.

I don't see what hands he could have that I beat. AJ, AT? A bluff? There's hardly a draw there. This is the $5.50 game (daytime), so I figure most opponents are more donkish than I am.

cow_phunk · #2 08-15-2005, 05:48 PM

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This is the $5.50 game (daytime), so I figure most opponents are more donkish than I am.

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call

#3 08-15-2005, 05:53 PM

Yeah, I did. He had AK, and I'm not good at hitting 3-outers [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]. I guess I'm over-analyzing this. It reminds me of how people talk about folding KK preflop when they believe the other player has AA.

LotsOfOuts69 · #4 08-15-2005, 06:01 PM

If thats how that moron plays AK, by limping, then cold calling a raise, snd then just pushing into his Ace high flop, you're just going to have to pay him off with AQ.

#5 08-15-2005, 06:16 PM

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If thats how that moron plays AK, by limping, then cold calling a raise, snd then just pushing into his Ace high flop, you're just going to have to pay him off with AQ.

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Agreed, but he deserves an all caps note. If he played less than 20% of hands or so before this, you can make some real EV off this guy by respecting his limps. Otherwise, you just have to know that he's super passive preflop, so he's a got a big spread.

BadBatsuMaru · #6 08-15-2005, 06:38 PM

Seems like a play that's easy to 2nd guess, but I don't think I'd be able to get away from it without some kind of read on the guy.

I mean, he limp/called ... a lot of people might do that with hands like ATo, A6s, 66, or 44. I can't imagine not slowplaying trips or top 2 pair heads-up, though, and limping with AK 7-handed is definitely strange.

I would like to see him playing a little over-aggressively before I call my last 910 chips, but in a $5.50 game I think I'd have to call then happily go join another one.

Uppercut · #7 08-15-2005, 07:53 PM

Once I learned that this is a $5.50 game, I think you have to call. Those donks will push with any Ace. (The great thing is that they will also call your push with any Ace.) [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Edit: I see that the villian had AKo. That sucks! Fire up another $5.50 after making a note on this guy. That's poker.

DaveKForty7 · #8 08-15-2005, 08:08 PM

I see KK/QQ/JJ(occasionally) played the same way all the time.

ChuckNorris · #9 08-15-2005, 08:14 PM

Looks like a pretty clear call to me in a $5.50. The fact that they had AK just goes to show how impossible these donks are to read... But I think they are much more likely to have a pocket pair, pure bluff or a weaker ace than >TPTK after limp-calling and overpushing the flop like that.