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droberts
Playing a little home game with a bunch of buddies from work for first time. Starting chips is 500 and blinds start at 5/10. Already starting with kinda small stack so i decided to play pretty snug. About 7th hand i pick up aces in CO. UTG limps, next player raises to 40, 1 fold, Hero reraises to 100 (this was second pot raised and none had been reraised PF so i decided on a smallish raise to build a pot) Button and blinds both fold, UTG and UTG+1 calls. This is a 7 handed game by the way. Flop is J 8 2 rainbow, dont remember exact suits but remember it was a rainbow flop. UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, Hero thinks for a little while and fires 200. Kinded wanted to end pot here because table seemed to station quite a bit and didnt want someone picking up 2 pair. UTG instacalls and UTG+1 tanks for 20 seconds and says " Here's your 200 and I'm all in." before i can even react UTG beats me into pot with an all in. Im pretty sure im pot committed here but with UTG beating me to pot before i can think about UTG+1 reraise, do i ever fold?
rvrchsrhtr
pretty gross. I think you def have to call, but I think it depends on opponents on how often you are ahead.
maybe you get lucky and org. raiser has 9T and mister quick call OOP shows up with an AJ type of hand?
gt9550
QUOTE (rvrchsrhtr @ Friday, March 6th, 2009, 5:36 AM) *
pretty gross. I think you def have to call, but I think it depends on opponents on how often you are ahead.
maybe you get lucky and org. raiser has 9T and mister quick call OOP shows up with an AJ type of hand?


This is pretty much what I was going to say. I think you have to make a crying call and be hopeful for some serious help.
pokerinc
Raise more pre, especially at a home game. Once you've put that much in on the flop, yeah, I'm going w/ it too, still a chance you're ahead.

Break up text more when you're posting a hand please, this is a little tough to read.
droberts
here are the results from the hand. Actually it was a hell of a pretty sick cooler. I did make a crying call but:

UTG had QQ, UTG+1 had KK, and obviously i had AA... The aces held to the river and i knocked them out.
Mercury69
never fold
cdipierr
QQ vs. KK vs. AA 7-handed is statistically unlikely enough that I'd wonder if someone was setting the deck (poorly). How much do you trust these guys?

In any event, easy call because you'll go on life tilt when they show AJ and KJ.

Gallo
QUOTE (droberts @ Friday, March 6th, 2009, 3:40 AM) *
Playing a little home game with a bunch of buddies from work for first time. Starting chips is 500 and blinds start at 5/10. Already starting with kinda small stack so i decided to play pretty snug. About 7th hand i pick up aces in CO. UTG limps, next player raises to 40, 1 fold, Hero reraises to 100 (this was second pot raised and none had been reraised PF so i decided on a smallish raise to build a pot) Button and blinds both fold, UTG and UTG+1 calls. This is a 7 handed game by the way. Flop is J 8 2 rainbow, dont remember exact suits but remember it was a rainbow flop. UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, Hero thinks for a little while and fires 200. Kinded wanted to end pot here because table seemed to station quite a bit and didnt want someone picking up 2 pair. UTG instacalls and UTG+1 tanks for 20 seconds and says " Here's your 200 and I'm all in." before i can even react UTG beats me into pot with an all in. Im pretty sure im pot committed here but with UTG beating me to pot before i can think about UTG+1 reraise, do i ever fold?

String bet, not allowed he has to just call. Shove any turn.
GreeneStreet
QUOTE (droberts @ Friday, March 6th, 2009, 4:40 AM) *
Hero reraises to 100 (this was second pot raised and none had been reraised PF so i decided on a smallish raise to build a pot)


Something I've been working on is trying not to adjust my bet sizing on monster hands pf because of the table dynamic (nitty or whatever). I've been finding that when I do that I'm just asking to be sucked out on.

As played, I'm never folding in that situation. If one of them flopped a set then they deserve my chips.
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