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[RESULTS] Villain in Early Position with AA

24 October 2008 3 Comments

Here are the results from: Villain in Early Position with AA

Most of you called for the Villain to push and I don’t necessarily disagree with you. When the pot is raised preflop in  these 100BB games, it’s near impossible to get away from AA on the flop unless the board is monotone or paired.

But I think I hero is representing an exceptionally strong hand by raising the almost potsized bet. Could a case be made for folding AA here? I don’t think so. I think a call is decent here. Then see what the hero does on the turn. At the end of the day, we only have a one pair hand and we are growing the pot out of position.

Thoughts?

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$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:

UTG   ($25.60)  
UTG+1   ($24.00)  
CO   ($25.60)  
Hero   ($24.65)  
SB   ($31.70)  
Villain (BB)   ($24.75)  

Pre-flop: ($0.35, 6 players) Hero is BTN, Villain is BB

Villain is in BB with:


3 folds, Hero raises to $1 ($23.65), 1 fold, Villain (BB) raises to $2.75 ($21.75), Hero calls $1.75 ($21.90)

Flop: ($5.60, 2 players)
Villain (BB) bets $4.25 ($17.75), Hero raises to $8.50 ($13.40), Villain (BB) goes all-in $22 ($0.00), Hero calls $13.40 ($0.00)

Turn: ($49.50, 2 players)

River: ($49.50, 2 players)

Final Pot: $49.40
Hero shows:
Villain (BB) shows:

Hero wins $46.95 ( won +$22.30 )
Villain (BB)  ( lost -$24.65 )

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3 Comments »

  • PokerVixen said:

    I have visions/flashbacks of being the villain, saying “All in.” and being insta-called. Its a sick feeling when you know that your aces have been cracked.

    However, that hand right there is exactly why I like to at least see a flop with any pocket pair. If it hits, I’m laughing, if it doesn’t, I can get away relatively easily.

    It also illustrates the hero’s button raise, if the blinds have trash they get away and he doesn’t have to deal with the stress of playing a mid or low pocket pair.

  • PokerPlasm said:

    Aces cracked! Damn!

    Been there, it sucks. Not much you can do there. You lay down Aces in this position, helluva read.

  • jett said:

    Aces cracked with that flop is not that surprising. You had a possible straight (AK or K-10 totally possible in that scenario..even K9 would’ve killed you) and a possible flush going let alone the set. Going all in is not going to scare most players off with a board like that if they’re sitting on something. The raise should’ve been an instant red flag.

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