Hand from $75 FullTilt tournament

specialK

This is a hand from fairly early in the tournament, it's a double stack so you start with 3K in chips. I decided that I would try to play my AA fairly deceptively. This time it played out just as I had hoped. Thoughts/comments please.

Full Tilt Poker Game #1991882778: $13,000 Guarantee (14543327), Table 18 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:14:44 ET - 2007/03/15
Seat 1: thebigugs (4,340)
Seat 2: cosjoel (2,326)
Seat 3: GDawg6944 (3,096)
Seat 4: DaPokerDBag (3,465)
Seat 5: jusmoneyjj (3,575)
Seat 6: chato-grande (1,542)
Seat 7: CSCAGLIONE (2,795)
Seat 8: wes2000 (1,880)
Seat 9: RonaldKosh (3,981)
jusmoneyjj posts the small blind of 20
chato-grande posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to thebigugs [Ah Ad]
CSCAGLIONE calls 40
wes2000 folds
RonaldKosh raises to 120
thebigugs calls 120
cosjoel folds
GDawg6944 folds
DaPokerDBag folds
jusmoneyjj folds
chato-grande folds
CSCAGLIONE raises to 540
RonaldKosh folds
thebigugs raises to 4,340, and is all in
CSCAGLIONE calls 2,255, and is all in
thebigugs shows [Ah Ad]
CSCAGLIONE shows [Kd Kc]
Uncalled bet of 1,545 returned to thebigugs
*** FLOP *** [3h Qd 9s]
*** TURN *** [3h Qd 9s] [2s]
*** RIVER *** [3h Qd 9s 2s] [9c]
thebigugs shows two pair, Aces and Nines
CSCAGLIONE shows two pair, Kings and Nines
thebigugs wins the pot (5,770) with two pair, Aces and Nines
CSCAGLIONE is sitting out
CSCAGLIONE stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5,770 | Rake 0
Board: [3h Qd 9s 2s 9c]
Seat 1: thebigugs showed [Ah Ad] and won (5,770) with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 2: cosjoel didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: GDawg6944 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: DaPokerDBag (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: jusmoneyjj (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: chato-grande (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: CSCAGLIONE showed [Kd Kc] and lost with two pair, Kings and Nines
Seat 8: wes2000 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: RonaldKosh folded before the Flop

SirWatts

I think the raise is too small for this to work well. You're inviting too many people into the hand at a good price, I'd just reraise it and build the pot. This move works a lot better when stacks are shallower later on. If he made a bigger raise where the pot was likely to become heads up or at worst three handed it would be better. You also want the pot to be big enough preflop that it's easy to get the rest of his money in postflop when he flops top pair or an overpair. Also, the UTG limper often has an implied odds hand you don't want to let in cheap anyways, but the times he limped a big hand he's probably going to play either way. Just straightforward play works better here.

pkrfce9

what he said.

looks like your opponent was trying to play KK deceptively too...

i don't like just calling here since 'gamblers' may decide to see a relatively cheap flop. i'm curious if you got serious action on that flop would you let it go?

specialK

yes I could fold my AA on that flop if it got crazy, depending by which player... the initial raisor "donaldKosh" was just horrible, so against him i couldn't, because he would be going to the felt with AQ, maybe even KQ on that board. but yeah, i could fold, you have to be able to if you're going to try to make a play like this.