AA early in tournament

netsurfer79 · #1 06-09-2005, 12:08 PM

The third hand in an 11$ SNG tourney, and therefore no particular reads..

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

Button (t685)
SB (t770)
BB (t715)
UTG (t800)
UTG+1 (t820)
UTG+2 (t800)
MP1 (t785)
MP2 (t1130)
Hero (t785)
CO (t710)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG calls t15, UTG+1 calls t15, 1 fold, MP1 raises to t50, 1 fold, Hero raises to t105, CO calls t105, 3 folds, UTG calls t90, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls t55.

Flop: (t437.50) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (4 players)
UTG checks, MP1 checks, Hero bets t125, CO calls t125, UTG folds, MP1 folds.

Turn: (t687.50) K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero bets t145, CO raises all-in t480, Hero folds.

Final Pot: t772.50

Correct laydown? Bad played? Any advice regarding which bet-sizes are appropriate? Have I committed myself to the pot? Should I have checked it down instead?

ps.I'm quite a rookie in this game, so please be gentle.. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

capone0 · #2 06-09-2005, 12:09 PM

If your going to reraise. Don't make a small reraise. Make a substantial reraise. Min reraising is a very weak play and as you saw led to a possible outdraw on you.

kyro · #3 06-09-2005, 12:19 PM

You only bet 1/4 of the pot on the flop. You need to make a bigger statement than that. You probably lose all your chips if you do this, but the times the K doesn't hit the turn, you're doubling up.

Karak567 · #4 06-09-2005, 12:20 PM

1) Bet more on the flop

2) Call his push on the turn

CarlSpackler · #5 06-09-2005, 12:49 PM

There’s a flush draw and inside straight draw on the flop. You have 3 opponents. There’s 445 in the pot – this is a large pot. This is a low level sng. Due to these factors, I push right now. Make your opponents put the rest of their stacks at risk if they want to see the next 2 cards. At these low level sng’s, you’ll get called by hands like KQ, A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]x[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], and worse, a lot more often than you’d think.

schwza · #6 06-09-2005, 12:55 PM

to echo everyone else....

- raise more pre-flop. poor players rarely raise-fold pre-flop. i'd make it about 135.

- bet more on the flop. 325 sounds right.

- as bad as that turn card is, i think you should push the turn. you don't want to give a cheap card to a flush draw, which is villain's most likely hand. if you bet small, i think you still need to call the push. there's an awful lot of money out there.

BlueEcho · #7 06-09-2005, 01:53 PM

My thinking here is to buy the chips at the flop with a raise big enough to scare out all or all but one opponent. AA is a great hand heads up but not so good multiway as you found out. Making the pre-flop raise of 400+ will limit the field and you still have way the best of it if you get a caller. After the flop I move in and make them pay for more cards. If you lose, well you lose but the odds are with AA heads up so I'm getting my money in there.

Now if I had played the hand exactly as you did your laydown is a good one. I feel as though your raise wasn't big enough to scare out the KQ, KJ, and K10. This person could have you beat and you have little outs to save yourself. I said earlier I get my money in with Aces but in this case there were to many callers to rule out that one of them didn't have a King. That's just my opinion. Good Luck out there.

Moonsugar · #8 06-09-2005, 02:10 PM

If you had folded preflop you would have avoided losing all those chips.