AA - What Should I Have Done Differently?

[Dooner]

<font color="PURPLE">I had been playing at the table for a while and it was a fairly loose table. Anyways, this is what happened....</font>

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Preflop: Hero is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG calls, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises</font>, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, Button folds, SB folds, BB folds, UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, MP2 calls.

Flop: (11.50 SB) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 bets</font>, MP2 calls, Hero calls.

<font color="PURPLE">I put UTG+1 on A/K, but wasn't sure about MP2, I thought that I would wait until the turn to raise hoping to push out any draws. Should I have raised on the flop instead?</font>

Turn: (7.25 BB) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 bets</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, UTG+1 calls, MP2 calls.

River: (13.25 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
UTG+1 checks, MP2 checks, Hero checks.

<font color="PURPLE">I checked on the river because I figured with both of them calling my raise on the turn, my overpair was probably beat. Either way, if a two-bet on the turn wouldn't chase them away, I doubt that a bet on the river was going to.</font>

Final Pot: 13.25 BB

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
UTG+1 has Qc Kc (one pair, kings).
MP2 has As 9s (straight, ten high).
Hero has Ah Ac (one pair, aces).
Outcome: MP2 wins 13.25 BB. </font>

<font color="PURPLE">I'm not sure if raising the flop would have pushed out MP2 before the river. Should I have done anything different, or just mark this down as an unlucky river? Thanks for taking the time to read this.</font>

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[Shillx]

Raise the flop. Get into a war with AK while there is a poor soul trapped in the middle.

And we are betting the river from now on I hope. Tough misclick. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Brad

[Wario]

Definitely bet the river.

[Jasmien]

the table is loose, so raise the flop and bet the river.

oh and dont post the results please.

[Cardzy]

I would have folded pre-flop. (just kidding!)

I would have definitely raised the flop. Knowing me, I would have checked that river as well as we now have 4 to a straight on board, but my river aggression is low and this could be the reason why. So don't take that as being the proper play. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Oh btw guys, what do you do when you bet this river and are check/raised?

[Dooner]

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Knowing me, I would have checked that river as well as we now have 4 to a straight on board.

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That was my thinking. On another board, I would have bet the river, but here I honestly thought I was beat. My thinking was I'd rather win the pot by checking and keep the bet if I was wrong. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] LOL [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] Before you all start yelling at me, that was just the feeling on this hand, normally I would bet the river. Thanks for all the advice though, it does help.

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[Shillx]

I lost with AA the 1st four times I had them. I figured that they were a chip burner in EP so I started folding them.

Then I got a message from Party Poker one day after I folded AA after someone raised preflop with KK. He flopped a set and I would have lost a big pot. They banned me until I started playing them again, and my winrate dropped from 5 BB/100 to -1BB/100. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Oh and happy new year [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Brad

[Cardzy]

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I lost with AA the 1st four times I had them. I figured that they were a chip burner in EP so I started folding them.

Then I got a message from Party Poker one day after I folded AA after someone raised preflop with KK. He flopped a set and I would have lost a big pot. They banned me until I started playing them again, and my winrate dropped from 5 BB/100 to -1BB/100. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Oh and happy new year [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Brad

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"Party Poker Cracked" rules baby! Buy it, use it, live by it! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Carmine]

Not raising this flop most likely cost you the pot. You already had PF aggression so no reason to slowplay. Even without the aggression slowplay is rarely the proper play.

[bisonbison]

bet the river.