$33 - AJs level 1, flop TP + draw

[schwza]

i have T495 left in a pot of 595. i'm not sure if this is reasonable, but i thought my two options were to push or to bet something like 250. for some reason i thought that it was "bad" to bet something like 350 or 400. probably not good on my part, but true.

so my thinking was that the most likely hands for the villain were something like 88, 98, JT, A9. possibly 77/TT/AT/A7, but i think these hands usually bet the river. i thought that 88, 98 are not calling anything. JT probably isn't either. my biggest concern was how to extract from Ax. i figured anybody who had come this far with it would probably call a push. in retrospect, i think i should've bet 250. my hand looks like exactly what it is - a flush. it's tough for a hand like A9 to call a push for almost all of his stack, and i don't want to let him get away.

finally, if he does have a strong hand - 2 pair or better - he might c/r me all-in anyway, so i'm not losing by betting instead of pushing in that case.


he said "A5" and folded and i kicked myself.