Winning the minimum with AA

aflaba · #1 08-23-2005, 01:30 PM

I just don't know. I've been playing poker for 15 months now. I've read close to 20 books. I have almost a total of 1000 posts on this forum. I've played 150,000 hands...

and this is the result. I don't like beating myself up, but sometimes it's hard not to. I make mistakes all the time. Both because of lack of strategic knowledge and because of something else... that I don't know what it is.

Villain is weak passive.

Party Poker 10/20 Hold'em (6 max, 6 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
3 folds, Hero raises, BB calls.

Flop: (4 SB) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (3 players)
Hero bets, BB calls.

Turn: (3 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 players)
Hero checks, BB bets, Hero calls.

River: (5 BB) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks.

Final Pot: 5 BB

jba · #2 08-23-2005, 01:38 PM

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Hero is weak passive.

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FYP

Danenania · #3 08-23-2005, 01:46 PM

Bet turn
Fold to raise
Bet river
Fold to raise

wackjob · #4 08-23-2005, 01:57 PM

Should have bet the entire hand. Folding sucks too.

Danenania · #5 08-23-2005, 01:58 PM

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Folding sucks too.

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Mig · #6 08-23-2005, 02:03 PM

You fold a lot of AA headsup in 10/20 ?

baronzeus · #7 08-23-2005, 02:04 PM

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You fold a lot of AA headsup in 10/20 ?

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When a weak passive player fights back, I do.

paco · #8 08-23-2005, 02:05 PM

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Bet turn
Fold to raise
Bet river
Fold to raise

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This turn is the perfect card to turn raise with free showdown with any piece of this board (I've seen a crazy amount of this type of larcency on the turn), and I think calling down with 2nd pair is totally fine for bb (I would turn raise with that Turn card) unless hero is a rock which of course he's not.

A J is not a certainty at all. I actaully think this line is fine. I would not fold unless raised on river. I WOULD feel quesy about folding after getting raised on turn. Maybe c/c on turn, bet river fold to raise?

rory · #9 08-23-2005, 02:08 PM

passive players dont raise enough or bluff enough or free showdown enough so just bet fold the scary cards. thats why they are so easy to play against because you can just bet and fold if they raise, especially into a scary board. so do that.

Danenania · #10 08-23-2005, 02:10 PM

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You fold a lot of AA headsup in 10/20 ?

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If it's warranted. Bad call downs with AA heads up are still bad call downs.

Note that weak passive players don't bluff raise and don't raise 4 straight turns for free showdowns with single pairs. And even if he will do one of these things once in a blue moon, the pot still isn't big enough to call down.