Pocket Aces vs A new Player in their First Hand
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Pocket Aces vs A new Player in their First Hand
2/5 - with a 10$ winner Straddle
I won the previous hand as the Big Blind-
Now I have the 10$ straddle on the button 1100$ effective- there are 4 Limpers and one of them is a new player in the Cutoff on their first hand.
I look down at AcAh and raise to $75 - Only the new player calls.
Flop is 7h8cJc. he checks I bet 85$. He calls (My initial read is a draw of some sorts perhaps J10 suited or even KJ AJ type hands.
Turn is a 7 of diamonds. He checks again. this is a better card for us as we are now beating 2 pair combos of J8 that decided to get sticky and eliminates possible Pocket 7s in his calling range- So I bet 150$. He check raises to 400$. (I'm already invested 310$ with total pot size being 1000$. I decided there were too many Jx Combos and Draws I was beating to fold. and calling just didn't make sense leaving me with only around 300$ left. I knew he wouldn't fold for that much. I jammed remaining 800$ ish dollars. He snap calls and turns over 10h7s
was this just a lucky donkey that I ran into - or is there a better way to play this against someone on their first hand? perhaps checking the turn or Larger flop Bet Sizing?
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Hey Kaseyorr,
I think we can go a little bigger pre vs 4 limpers. I am making it an even $100 with my AA and some stronger bluffs.
when villian calls i am giving him the following range you can play around with it but i think its a decent rough out line in a live game.
T-22,AKs-A2s,KQs-KJs,QJs-QTs,JTs-J9s,T9s-T8s,98s,87s,AQo-ATo,KQo-KJo,[80]JJ[/80],[50]QQ[/50]
notice the I am giving 50% QQ and 80% JJ. 100% all other pairs
On this flop we have 79% equity.
here are some more random flops so we can see how strong this hand is for us
6c4c2h- 87%
9d2d3d-67%
Kh6c6s-92%
9s5d2h-86%
KdQs4h-77%
you could keep going with this. but the point is this a middle of the road flop for our hand.
Now from a theory perspective you should be checking AA and some frequency. this depends how you play the rest of your range. but going back to this being a middle of the road flop for us betting only 2 streets with AAs will not be a bad thing for us.
We should think about the fact that if all the money goes in. especially holding the Ac we will most likely be behind.
on the turn our equity 72% if on the flop he calls everything right down to his bd flushdraws and all got shuts seems possible in a life game.
a check seems like a good play for the following reasons
when the river card comes. it will be easy to judge the strength of your hand.
you will have position. you can make a read and put max pressure on this guy. or make a hero fold
as we said on the flop this good board for us it got worse on the turn if 200bb go in. it is most likely not going to be good for us.
Hope that helps, interested to hear what others think about this.
Thanks, This is great for the future. checking the turn and going into check call mode on the river was probably the best play here. I did have prior experience playing with this player so I knew he was wild. which was making that much harder to fold.
You really think he check raises Jx combos? the board is pretty wet and he has all ready shown a passive tendency preflop. As for combo draws/draws , you’d think he’d check raise this on flop as well.
I think his check raise range is going to be strong and limp calling range will have more 7x than the norm. The board is dynamic and this would be a
Two street game for me , as played I bet/fold turn, or check turn call river…. I’d size up with reflow as well
Anyway nice hand !!!
based on prior experience with this player yes i think he check raises all top pairs on this board. - I just didn't know what type of mood he was in that day. but I agree looking back 2 streets of value or even going into check call mode on a wet board was the better play.
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