What Would You have done in this situation!!!!!!!
this is a cash game 5/10 no limit. I am Second next to the chip leader with $1485 and the leader with $1670. now i have been getting trash cards and folding for the past 20 hands and now i was finally dealt AK of spades. i am the big blind and 4 people folded and the guy before the button rasied to $40 and the button re-raised to $80. now it was on me. not being a fan of AK and having folded the last 20 times i called. the $40 raiser folded and now it was just us at the Flop.
(POT is $290)
Me: AK of spades
The Button: ??
Flop: A (hearts) K (hearts) K (Clubs)
I was first to act and i Checked Tryong to trap him and let him hit a card. He Pushed ALL In for his remaining $1550. Now i called him in a heart beat with my remaining $1365.
(POT $3205)
Me: AK Spades
Button: QJ Hearts
Turn & River A (hearts) K (hearts) K (Clubs) 2 (sapdes) 10 (hearts)
i mean he hit his royal flush. was i wrong for calling his all in or was this a hand i could have gotten away from because of the small pot? what would you have done? i would like to hear from all fo you.
(POT is $290)
Me: AK of spades
The Button: ??
Flop: A (hearts) K (hearts) K (Clubs)
I was first to act and i Checked Tryong to trap him and let him hit a card. He Pushed ALL In for his remaining $1550. Now i called him in a heart beat with my remaining $1365.
(POT $3205)
Me: AK Spades
Button: QJ Hearts
Turn & River A (hearts) K (hearts) K (Clubs) 2 (sapdes) 10 (hearts)
i mean he hit his royal flush. was i wrong for calling his all in or was this a hand i could have gotten away from because of the small pot? what would you have done? i would like to hear from all fo you.
Comments
No. If you really have to ask that, you shouldn't be playing 5/10 NL games.
Was he lucky? Yes. He hit his 1 outer. It happens, sucks that it cost you >1k, but if you do that same thing 100 times, you're up..... a lot.
The raise / re-raise pre-flop was a little scary for AK IMO - barring reads, I would say that at best you're racing and at worst you're WAY behind... I could have sworn this was going to become a "He had AA" beat.
Mark
There are certain f-u moments in poker where you get screwed no matter what you do and this is one of them.
The only worthy discusssion of this hand is the pre-flop play. I would have folded pre-flop...because I don't like AK at all in that situation....but that's just me.
With a raise and re-raise, I'm afraid with AK there, which is why I mentioned the "read-dependant" part in my reply.
However, since this guy is re-raising with QJ, then I"m assuming he tremendously over-values hands, and you should have re-raised again PF.
Mark
In this case your question is impossible to answer.
I would need to know who I"m playing against in order to make what I felt was the correct decision. I'm not overly worried about cutoff +1 (original raiser) since he may be on a steal, but that depends on my read on him. The re-raise from chip lead I have to decide if he's got something or if he's just big-stack bullying, based on previous hands I'd seen with him, I could get a read on his range of re-raising hands. Now, given this particular situation, i've seen one hand, and if this is all I had to base it on, I'd say he greatly over-values starting hands and draws, and retroactively would have re-raised him pre-flop, based on my read.
Now, can you guess why we can't really answer?
If this was a new table and I knew nothing of anyone, I'd probably fold AK out of position to a raise and re-raise.
Mark
I would either call or re-raise to 300 or so, depending on the raiser and re-raiser. I would tend to call. No way I'd ever fold the flop. Ever. Ever. Ever. I wonder how big of a bluffer that initial raiser was...
I WOULD LOSE ALL MY MONEY!
I think you played this hand just fine. The SB re-raise is obiviously a resteal, and I actually like the cold call. No way I'm folding :as :ks after a period of card deadness.
I know it sucks losing when you're ahead by 95% on the flop, but poop happens.
Sorry about your loss.
What site was this on?
Johnnie
As far as pre-flop play, no reads were provided. However, a guy who re-pops it with QJs is probably not the tightest player, plus he's on the button. I'd have no problem playing this hand (even with the re-raise) except against the tightest of players. I probably wouldn't re-raise, since that opens the betting back up to the (assumed loose) button and you still have the original raiser to act, and I'd prefer to see a flop (but that's mainly a style difference - I prefer post-flop play).
My bad. Between the limits and the bad beat, I naturally thought it was PokerStars.
Live poker is rigged.
Johnnie
What would I have done, probably raised the size of the pot knowing the button would be the kind of player to raise with QJs hoping to make the original raiser fold.
Then I may have covered the area behind me in vomit after the river card.
Since I've started playing poker, I wouldn't feel so good if I left the doctors office being told I'm 95% sure to beat this thing.
I said that live poker was rigged in a tourney when my flopped set lost to a smaller flopped set when he hit the 4th queen on the turn and no one believed me.
Jenn had :qd :qs, Eric had :ks :kh, and Trevor had :as :ah.
Oh, the Aces held up too.
You flop the second nuts, and the only draw to beat you is a one outer? or runner runner for quads... No way anyone in their right mind would fold that.