$1-$2 Lay Down KK Pre-Flop??
I played a few iteresting hands in Vegas and I have been meaning to post a trip report but haven't had the time to pull it together.
This is at Bally's (don't recommend the room FWIW) $300 Max buy-in. I buy-in for the max.
I sit down in seat 5 in the Cut-off and don't play a hand until I am Under the Gun when I wake up with red KK. I make it $8, seat 8 raises to $20 and button calls saying, "only because it's you," while smiling at seat 8.
I cut a stack of nickels in half and as I grab them to move them into the pot (one in each hand), one starts to fall over and long story short dealer says, "string bet," and I am only allowed to raise to $50.
Seat 8 tanks for 20 secs and moves All-in he has me covered. Button folds.
Me?
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Seat 8 is a 50ish middle eastern dood wearing sunglasses. He played 5 of 7 pots since I sat down. Someone had recently asked him, "I thought you were leaving?" and he says, "Yeah real soon!"
What are the odds he thinks I am angling him with the string raise?
How often does he have AA here?
Is calling terrible?
This is at Bally's (don't recommend the room FWIW) $300 Max buy-in. I buy-in for the max.
I sit down in seat 5 in the Cut-off and don't play a hand until I am Under the Gun when I wake up with red KK. I make it $8, seat 8 raises to $20 and button calls saying, "only because it's you," while smiling at seat 8.
I cut a stack of nickels in half and as I grab them to move them into the pot (one in each hand), one starts to fall over and long story short dealer says, "string bet," and I am only allowed to raise to $50.
Seat 8 tanks for 20 secs and moves All-in he has me covered. Button folds.
Me?
Reads
Seat 8 is a 50ish middle eastern dood wearing sunglasses. He played 5 of 7 pots since I sat down. Someone had recently asked him, "I thought you were leaving?" and he says, "Yeah real soon!"
What are the odds he thinks I am angling him with the string raise?
How often does he have AA here?
Is calling terrible?
Comments
i'm always aware of the old adage: third reraise = pocket As. however this is a cash game. folding pocket Ks preflop in a cash game wouldn't seem like a smart play to me. tournament play is obviously a different story. if you can't afford to lose your $300 buy-in and then rebuy you're playing too high of stakes. i'd call preflop for sure. if he has AA then i rebuy. if not i'm more than likely winning a crap load of chips on my first hand. worst case scenario you're 2 to 1 to win the hand (not including vs pocket As obviously).
Enough said...
Not the issue and Never should be!!!11!!11
I agree with both of you obv.
He had AA obv.
Button folded AK and another dude says I folded a K too.
I tell the villian, "Nice hand Sir," and re-buy.
Villian starts spouting off to the table that my call was terrible and that he never would make that call. Which tilts me obv.
I say, "You've played like every hand since I sat down and are wearing shades in a $1-$2 game. How can I not call? STFU and stack your chips."
LOL. Coolerd
I had a toughter decision last week in a tournament. From the botton I raise 5x the BB, the BB reraised 3x that and everyone else folded. I had KK obviously. The BB had just made a huge raise the hand before with 33. I know his play a bit, I respect him but he's a bit loose as well.
I ended up pushing and he called showing the A A.
Tough place to be and I keep thinking if I could have gotten away from it. I really don't mind losing in situations like that... much better then a bad beat or a bad decision (of course some of you might think it was a bad decision).