$200 MTT... Near FT with AA

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$200 MTT... Near FT with AA

Blinds are 600/1200 and 120 ante.  I have 30k chips.

I have AA in SB.  Solid/Aggro reg raises 2.5 UTG with around 7 people.  I just flat call OOP(probably screwed myself over right there).  However I wanted to try and set a big trap and be the potential chip leader.

Flop comes Kh 6h Qd and I have AhAd.  I check, he bets 60% of pot.  I check raise him 2.5 his bet(6k) He then 4bets me to 15k.

Do I shove here or fold?!!  

My position is 8/15 and 9 get paid.


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Rapha Nogueira 10 years, 7 months ago

KQx is nearly the worst board for AA possible. I would just x/c down against aggro on this textures. Sure OTR will be a tough decision in most rundowns but I think you can just call flop. As played, blocking Ah reduces a little his bluffs like AJhh, AThh but I think he should never do it with AK. 

Brian Hastings 10 years, 7 months ago

I think preflop is fine although I'd more often raise from the SB and flat from the BB.  I don't love your spot on the flop but gotta jam now.  I do think just x/c flop is likely better on KQx, opponent is likely betting flop pretty polar and that range includes several very strong hands that beat AA

JerseyGrinder23 10 years, 7 months ago

@Rapheal I agree, it is always scary when there are two big cards on a flop when you have AA.  Usually the villain has it or I am a slight favorite against combo draws.  He actually had Q9s and my read was somewhat accurate.  I thought he would make a move like this with even a flush draw and no pairs.  I was a slight favorite and lost.

@Brian Thanks for the response!  Huge fan and really respect your game.  Couple questions:

Any reason for re-raising from SB and not BB?  I'm assuming you are re-raising to isolate the pot and make sure the BB doesn't get the right odds to call.  In this case though the BB was a huge nit and pretty straightforward. 

Would you just check/call the flop,turn,river in this spot?  Assuming the turn and river are two brick cards.


Kevin Brown 10 years, 7 months ago

Wouldn't want to speak for Brian, but I would think his flat from BB not SB statement is more a statement on relative hand values, your hand value looks much wider flatting BB than flatting out of the SB with the BB still to act behind. Especially as people start flatting much wider out of the BB in spots where they're essentially just calling an extra chip.

Rapha Nogueira 10 years, 7 months ago

I think x/c plays better since you can't represent the nuts and even tough you have KQ/66 only 66 plays very good as a x/r since you don't block a lot of his continuing range. I like let him barrel and decide river. with AhA would be probably a fold on heart turns and brick rivers. I don't think we need to avoid this huge decisions on rivers and I prefer this hand this way. But x/r gii is just fine. 

Beau VanLaanen 10 years, 7 months ago

You say you want to trap him by just flatting pre flop (which I think is a mistake) but then you check/raise him on the flop. This doesn't make sense if your plan is to trap. I think I prefer to check/call on the flop so we can let V barrel with Kx and some Qx hands. V is raising UTG, so we have to give him credit for a somewhat strong hand and I think a lot of hands V is raising UTG he would call a 3-bet pre flop. 

As played I you should shove.

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