AQo Hand at B&M 3-6 Game

Stacheman · #1 01-07-2005, 12:46 PM

Hey everyone, longtime lurker, first time poster. I would like some comments on the following hand if anyone thinks it's worthwhile. This is a typical loose-passive B&M 3-6 game.

Pre-Flop: Hero (poster) is dealt A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] on the Button.
5 callers and Hero raises to $6. Everyone calls, 6 to Flop. (6BB)

Flop: 2 4 6 (rainbow)
Checked to MP3. MP3 bets, CO calls, Hero calls, UTG+1 calls. 4 to turn. (8BB)

Turn: Q (completes rainbow)
MP3 bets, CO folds, Hero raises, UTG+1 cold calls, MP3 calls. 3 to river. (14 BB)

River: A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
UTG+1 bets, MP3 calls, Hero raises, UTG+1 3-bets, MP3 folds, Hero caps.

Final pot: 23 BB

Comments on all streets appreciated. Specifically, what do you make of UTG+1 coming out betting on the river? Was I correct to raise and cap (keeping in mind that I had seen him turn over some garbage winners like K6o and such)?

Nick C · #2 01-07-2005, 01:04 PM

I'd get worried when UTG+1 3-bet the river, but I might cap anyway. (It's just one more bet, after all.)

My guess is that UTG+1 flopped a set (or a straight with 53) and was very patient. Or maybe he rivered a worse two pair, and there was a happy ending after all.

I think that probably at a live, loose-passive game you should just call the river 3-bet, but everything before that looks fine.

PokeHer · #3 01-07-2005, 01:05 PM

I think it was played well. If UTG+1 has 35, you can go ahead and vomit. If he has trips, that is too bad. I think it is far more likely that he has A2 A4 or A6 and made a smaller 2 pair because he never bet until the A fell. Smells like aces up to me, so you did a great job and got the maximum amount of money in the pot on all the streets where you thought you were ahead.

Hawkeye27 · #4 01-07-2005, 01:05 PM

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Stacheman · #5 01-07-2005, 01:40 PM

I was definitely taken aback when UTG+1 led out on the river. I thought, "There is no way he has 35 or a set." I had a bit of a read and I didn't think the guy even knew what a slowplay was. I figured the A on the river made his Aces Up (A2, A4, A6) because, from what I surmised, the guy would probably play any Ace from any position.

Lo and behold, he turns over 3 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]5 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] for the flopped nuts. He called UTG+1 with this hand and he called my pre-flop raise. I guess he was correct, after all, they were sooooooted.

PokeHer · #6 01-07-2005, 02:22 PM

lol... what can you do but tell him "good hand" and encourage him to continue to play hands like that

Nick C · #7 01-07-2005, 02:37 PM

Maybe it wasn't until the river that he realized he had a straight.

I've done something similar, actually. Once I limped in early position with KJs in a live game and the flop came QT9, and for some reason I thought I only had a gutshot. So I checked the flop and then called when someone bet (the pot was big enough) and then I was calculating pot odds (after I checked a turn blank) while I waited for the action to get back to me. Sometime during this process, it occurred to me that I had a jack, which gave me an open-ender, and shortly after that I realized that the king gave me the nuts. So I checkraised, which might've seemed crafty to the others at the table, but they wouldn't have been impressed at all if they could've read my mind. I was pretty disgusted with myself afterwards (since I had been contemplating folding the best possible hand on the turn), but the flop bettor had J8, and I made out pretty well.

PokerBob · #8 01-07-2005, 03:05 PM

Where was the game?

Stacheman · #9 01-07-2005, 04:02 PM

The game was at Oneida Casino in GB, WI. The room has been open for about 5 months, I think. The 3-6 game was very juicy and I would play it all the time if I lived closer. The highest limits they had spread their were 5-10, and this was a Saturday. They also have what is seemingly a pretty good $100min/max buy in no limit game. All this being said, the room is very poorly run. The dealers don't know the rules and from how they talk, they seem to change fairly often or depending on who's running the floor. The head floorperson gave me an attitude when I moved to 5-10 and wanted to color up my $1 chips. 5-10 game is a bit more "rocky".