AK hand level 1

schwza · #1 08-09-2005, 10:24 AM

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) converter

UTG+1 (t800)
UTG+2 (t800)
MP1 (t800)
MP2 (t800)
MP3 (t785)
CO (t840)
Button (t790)
SB (t785)
Hero (t800)
UTG (t800)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
2 folds, UTG+2 calls t15, MP1 calls t15, 1 fold, MP3 calls t15, CO raises to t50, 1 fold, SB calls t40, Hero calls t35, UTG+2 calls t35, MP1 calls t35, MP3 folds.

Flop: (t265) T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (5 players)
SB bets t30, Hero raises to t170, UTG+2 calls t170, MP1 folds, CO calls t170, SB calls t140.

Turn: (t945) K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (4 players)
SB bets t150, Hero?

tigerite · #2 08-09-2005, 10:26 AM

I'd have just called the flop, hoping for either someone further down the field to raise so I could push, or at the worst, take a card off, most of the deck is safe for you here, just spades that you fear. Unfortunately one came.. but now the pot is huge on the turn, and I wouldn't really know what to do here, probably fold and hate it because I can't believe that one of the 5 (?) or so in there won't have the flush here..

#3 08-09-2005, 10:27 AM

I fold. I also would raise pre-flop with ak.

tigerite · #4 08-09-2005, 10:28 AM

The call preflop is fine, no need to build a massive pot here

Unarmed · #5 08-09-2005, 10:37 AM

Make a real raise on the flop...

durron597 · #6 08-09-2005, 10:43 AM

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gumpzilla · #7 08-09-2005, 10:44 AM

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I think the flop raise is okay. It's a little more than 1/2 pot to the remaining players, and I think you can't really expect all of them to hang around for that. It would be a different story if numerous players had already limped in, but given that they are facing the pot after schwza's bet with nothing already in I think it should be reasonably effective, usually. Given that they have all called, I find it difficult to believe that there isn't a flush out there.

schwza · #8 08-09-2005, 10:52 AM

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yeah, i winced a little when i read the hh. i was worried a raise to, say, 230 over a minbet would look too scary and i'd lose marginal hands. in retrospect, i do like a bigger raise - somebody's usually going to want to go to the felt on that flop.

ekky · #9 08-09-2005, 10:52 AM

even if there isn't a flush out there, he can easily be freerolled by the A spades.. giving him split-at-best potential.

I lose all love for this hand after the turn, and treat it like the traitor it has become.

schwza · #10 08-09-2005, 11:04 AM

well said. i folded.

SB had a flush.