A Hand That Made Me Happy and Sad and Maybe Happy Again...

[W. Deranged]

Yeah this hand sucked. Thanks for the advice. I think I've realized a couple things:

1. As for play on the flop and the turn, I think there are a variety of different possible routes to take, including: check-call flop, donk turn; bet flop, bet turn; and check-raise flop, check-turn. Bet flop, screwplay turn is really not one of them. I allow the turn to get checked through, and possibly give villain an easy chance to fold. I don't really like a flop check-raise here (or a check-raise anywhere, really) because I think a tightish villain will often find easy folds with KK and QQ if I check-raise. I think my preferred line is probably check-call flop, donk turn.

2. The best number of bets to go to on the turn and the river is 5. I really think 6 BB is too much, because any scenario that gets to that number (I cap flop, bet river and get raised; I call turn three-bet, check-raise river and get three-bet) indicate I'm up against AA a large majority of the time.

With this in mind, I think I should have called the turn three-bet and donked the river, calling a raise. That assures 4-5 BB go in on the last two streets, and doesn't risk letting only 3 go in or letting 6 go in.

Thanks for the comments.

Not that it's significant but villain tabled AA.