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#HelloAlec episode for today is coming from my reader Ivan. He played this cash game hand with pocket aces in the under the gun. He wants to know is his line profitable in the long run. What would be your line here? Would you call villain’s bet on the turn? What is your betting strategy here? Your analysis?
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Q-Q is calling an all in pre-flop for sure. when you limp UTG and ship your chips after a raise and reraise the Q-Q most likely will put you on two overs or smaller pocket pair. i think its a slightly risky to flat the raise and let the 3rd player in. if the villain is willing to 3 bet preflop he or she will most likely call your all in pre flop. i would like to take my aces ideally heads up.
ummmm im amazed he still called you seeing how you just called two raises cold which is basically sending smoke signals in the air about your hand really if i was the player against you i think i would have folded.
Where do I even begin?
– How is it that so many people who post hands don't know the difference between a bet and a raise, or a raise and a reraise? It's impossible for them to reraise you preflop when you don't raise to begin with.
– Open limping aces. At NL5. I mean…really? If people really are raising and reraising a bunch, then you should be thrilled to start building a pot w/ aces. Heck, you could've gotten your whole stack in pre and called it a day.
– What are you doing with that turn bet? If he has a hand like AcKc/AcQc, you're just letting him draw to his 9 outer without having to commit his whole stack (like he can just call and donk shove a river 8c and are you really folding?). So if he has a flush draw and two overs, you're leaving 31 bb on the table. If he has the cooler hand, you're getting his whole stack no matter what. Don't be fancy, go all in.
But really, you should never have gotten to the turn this way because you should've raised preflop.
Preflop- Don't ever limp under the gun, just open to a standard 3bb or something… i think that it is ok to just call the 3bet, you could also 4bet and hope to get it in, but it looks very strong to limp-raise UTG, calling gives the first raiser the opportunity to 4bet and also to just call, he might fold if you 4bet…
Flop- I think it is better to call, and jam turn. Because kwame69 will call here with any pair often, but when you raise he will usually fold sixes to nines etc…
Turn- Just go all in and hope he calls, the stack to pot ratio is so low that it is all in or check…
You guys here agree?
2 things if you're going to limp UTG with Aces: 1) You'd better also be doing so with weaker hands that you might then fold to a raise, and 2) RE-RAISE against any raise. The last thing you want to do is go 3-ways to the flop with AA.
Would like to hear what alec has to say about the way the queens were played.
Hey did you ever get my hand when I had pocket kings and the guy flopped a flush on the flop?
I would of re raised pre flop
Wow. You have the best starting hand in poker and you have a raise, rereaise and you called? Ok you got lucky merry Christmas
The only reason to open limp with AA (or KK) is, that it gives you the opportunity to go for a back-raise, if you induce someone to isolate you. So in this case, where you not only get isolated, but there is also a 3-bet in front of you, you should feel SO golden and put in a 4-bet. Yes it turns your range face up to some extend. But if you are worried about that, then dont open limp in the first place. Because its just SUCH an unbalanced play for most people. And in this case, do you really think, he would have folded his QQ, if you had raised it up to say 1,5$? So just put in more money preflop, when you have the nuts. In this case you were lucky enough to hit the pecfect runout. But there will be other times, when an A, a K or a highly coordinated board slow him down and prevent him from paying you off postflop.