A hand I know others here play differently

[Apathy]

I think this hand is a good one for generating discussion from two of the main differing post-flop styles and posistions taken by members of this forum for SNG playing. Here is the hand, let me know what you think of this line:

Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Pork_Chop_73 ( $1145 )
Seat 2: justin9966 ( $1175 )
Seat 3: armencara ( $605 )
Seat 4: pokerballler ( $1315 )
Seat 5: FeiteFrank14 ( $910 )
Seat 6: buginfamous ( $915 )
Seat 7: nardist ( $970 )
Seat 8: blaydzfsteel ( $900 )
Seat 9: duffer81 ( $1105 )
Seat 10: byphass1 ( $960 )
Trny:15159991 Level:1
Blinds(10/15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to blaydzfsteel [ Qc Ah ]

byphass1 folds.
Pork_Chop_73 calls [15].
justin9966 folds.
armencara folds.
pokerballler calls [15].
FeiteFrank14 folds.
buginfamous calls [15].
nardist folds.
blaydzfsteel calls [5].
duffer81 checks.

** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, Ac, Ks ]

blaydzfsteel checks.
duffer81 checks.
Pork_Chop_73 bets [75].
pokerballler folds.
buginfamous calls [75].
blaydzfsteel raises [250].
duffer81 folds.
Pork_Chop_73 calls [175].
buginfamous folds.

** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]

blaydzfsteel is all-In [635]
Pork_Chop_73 calls [635].

** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]

[johnnybeef]

tell me a little bit about bug in famous

[gumpzilla]

How often are people calling your turn push with AJ, AT? I'm guessing not that often. The backdoor draw doesn't really intimidate me, and I'm thinking that if you're ahead your opponent is drawing to three outs (occasionally five, but I don't think that happens very often). So I don't get the turn push here, unless people are still sufficiently donkish that dominated aces and the occasional K will call. The rest of the hand I'm fine with. EDIT: And yes, I'm ignoring metagame issues that suggest that since WAWB is probably the standard way to play AQ here in your shoes, he might call with less because he reads you for something different, but I don't think that's a very big factor unless you know this guy really well. Again, I don't know how you guys do things in the 215s.

[Oluwafemi]

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byphass1 folds.
Pork_Chop_73 calls [15].
justin9966 folds.
armencara folds.
pokerballler calls [15].
FeiteFrank14 folds.
buginfamous calls [15].
nardist folds.
blaydzfsteel raises [45] to 55.

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[Apathy]

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tell me a little bit about bug in famous

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Don't know him... should I?

[johnnybeef]

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tell me a little bit about bug in famous

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Don't know him... should I?

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Well you are playing against him, I assume that you have a read......my standard line would be to play it the same way you did since you are oop and i like to be aggressive when i am in that situation, but, i could easily see someone play aa or kk this way, and if i think this is the case, i needa read on the player, and will usually check and call based on his bet sizes.

[beeyjay]

When you're talking about the two postflop styles I am assuming that you're referring to your approach opposed to a hand I think raptor posted recently talking about check calling the flop check folding the turn with tpgk.

If thats the case I think I like your more aggressive angle on it but I question the turn push a little. Why bet so much? It seems like his draws have to be pretty slim here unless his Ax was diamonds. I do think you're ahead as anything that had you beat wouldn't come out potting that flop.

Then again I basically took off the last month so I'm a little out of it.

[beeyjay]

I don't see him playing AA or KK that fast on that flop too often.

In general I mean, I don't know the dude in question.

[curtains]

Funny this is probably about how I'd play it.

[fluorescenthippo]

by others, who do you mean? and by differently, how do you meaN?


is this a 109?