First time playing live nl at a casino

[theWhale]

This happened a few weeks ago, been meaning to post it here.

I played 2-5nl live at a casino last night for the first time. I consider myself a good NL tourney player but I don't play many ring games.

I sat down with 375 (min buy was 200) and built my stack up above 600 then down to 425 then back up to 575 at this table. This whole time one guy was starting to get drunk and lucky and taking down some big pots. He seemed to go all in when he had a good hand. Once he went all in with qj on a board of q72 or something for 600 bucks into a $60 pot.

EDIT: He also HATED getting his premium hands cracked and I had seen him go all in pre flop with Aces for $600 into a $30 pot earlier in the night.

Anyway he was raising and reraising pre flop and he had just doubled up a guy when his a5 got outkicked by a9 when an ace flopped (he went all in of course). He was giving it away and it was getting late and I was hoping to get my share.

It was nearing 2am when this hand occurred (I was leaving at 2am regardless):

I get KK in 3rd position and I raise it to 30, 2 solid players call from late position and mr maniac is in the bb and he raises and tosses $40 out there (remember he is drunk). The dealer makes him raise to $60 and it is up to me and I make it $130 to go. Both the cold callers fold and the maniac looks at me and asks if I have aces. I smile and he puts me all in for 440 more or so (he had me covered by a good 200 or so).


What do you do here? It is your last hand of the night. Results to follow.

[Kaz The Original]

I quickly call.

[jhall23]

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I quickly call.

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[nickey009]

This game is way over my head but I call every time. I don't have the ability to read someone well enough to definitively put someone on AA.

[meow_meow]

This seems like a set-up.
Everything you say about villain adds to your case for calling here. Except where he asks you if you have aces, which probably means he does.

I see two possible outcomes.
1. you call, he flips over AA, you curse youself all the way home.
2. you muck, he flips up something else, you curse yourself all the way home.

Which is it?

[Los Feliz Slim]

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This seems like a set-up.

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Agreed, although my prediction is he calls and Villain has something terrible and ends up with 2 pair or runner-runner-runner.

[theWhale]

Alas, it is indeed bad beat.

I "quickly called" too and he had A9. Flop was ??? Actually, this is the sad part, I was so hyped up and tunneled in on looking for an ace to fall, I have no idea what the cards were. I know he made a straight with his 9 because I actually thought I won when the river was a 7.

If I had to guess I think it was JT8J7

The real clue here was his rinky dink raise to 60. He would never do that with AA, he was too scared to let 3 players in for cheap to bust his ass.

I really should have made it 200 to go and taken my 650 home.

[meow_meow]

Don't think that way. You got all your money in as a better than 2:1 favorite.

If you had to do it all again, knowing he had A9, would you really prefer him to fold preflop rather than putting you all-in?

[zaxx19]

Imho the worst beats are always Ace junk versus KK just bc your hand is really SOOOO much better.