Aces Last Night 1/2 Live

[ghostlove 0]

alright, so this hand came up last night: sorry no conversion.full table, 1/2nl live me $300 Villain $2602 limpers in early position, i raise to 10 on button with AdAc, SB folds, BB folds, both limpers callflop: 7h 9h 10hcheck, check, i bet 25, first limper folds, second limper raises to 60 (35 more)he has been playing loose all night, definetly the type of player you want to play against, just terrible in general, big raises, very very loose callswhat do i do here?anyways, i thought for a while, reraised him all in putting him on a heart, either the a or k, and a pair. he insta calls and flips over 5h8h. turn is an ace, river a blank, so i lose.please post some comments, and i know i posted the results, but please dont take the fact that i lost the pot into consideration about the play, becasue, yeah, knowing his cards i would not have put him all in, thanks.-Ghost

[BaseJester 1]

Raise more preflop.

[DemonDonk 0]

Raise more preflop.

[BeaverStyle 1]

alright, so this hand came up last night: sorry no conversion.full table, 1/2nl live me $300 Villain $2602 limpers in early position, i raise to 10 on button with AdAc, SB folds, BB folds, both limpers callflop: 7h 9h 10hcheck, check, i bet 25, first limper folds, second limper raises to 60 (35 more)he has been playing loose all night, definetly the type of player you want to play against, just terrible in general, big raises, very very loose callswhat do i do here?anyways, i thought for a while, reraised him all in putting him on a heart, either the a or k, and a pair. he insta calls and flips over 5h8h. turn is an ace, river a blank, so i lose.please post some comments, and i know i posted the results, but please dont take the fact that i lost the pot into consideration about the play, becasue, yeah, knowing his cards i would not have put him all in, thanks.-Ghost

This is the reason you don't include results in a strategy post. It creates a bias in posters' responses and decision in poker shouldn't be results oriented.Also, post this in the NLHE Cash Games forum... I fold on the flop, you have one pair w/ no redraw on a board that could have easily hit your opponent hard, as his check-raise is representing.And raise more pre-flop.

[gt9550 0]

I am going to ditto one thing that has already been said. Raise more pre flop. Having played many times at Foxwoods and Mohegan (assuming that's where you were) $10 preflop just isn't going to get it done. You really want to play your AA against one opponent, and with 2 people already limping, a raise to $10 usually only entices 3 or 4 to call. Luckily and unluckily you did manage to get only one caller. However, post flop, I say you have to fold to his raise. I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere once that the average winning hand in Hold em is two pair. So here you sit facing a pretty strong line from the villain with only 1 pair and no redraws. That board is so draw heavy that even if your aces are good on the flop, there are a ton of cards you are going to have to fade twice. I wouldn't be surprised to see him turn up any set, two pair, a straight, a made flush, a flush draw, a made straight, an open ended straight draw...all hands that have you crushed (except the draws-but even they have a ton of outs-twice). I just don't think this is a good spot to ship it. Those games are very soft, and if you play patiently, you can find a lot of success. I try to avoid marginal situations as best I can, and look to ship it with a monster because you will usually get a chance to do so. Maybe I will see you at the tables some day. Be well.

[ghostlove 0]

hey, yeah, are you from CT as well?

[tskillz187 0]

Getting c/r on that board is the suck. You really can't make profitable plays from that point on, the guy owns you. You could shove which isn't great, you can call which isn't great, or you can fold which isn't great. This is where some tells help out. The fact that you wrote he was really aggro and making big raises and then check raises you very small here would send some alarms off for me. Normally I'd call one and see what happens on the turn and see how he reacts on turn because you have position, or I'd just muck to the C/R. The only thing you're beating is a semi-bluff, which you aren't crushing.

[gt9550 0]

Yea, I'm from CT. Live about 20 minutes from Mohegan. Actually, I chopped for 1st in the $120 Tuesday noon daily tournament there last week. I used to play at Foxwoods a lot, but getting to Mohegan is a little quicker and easier so I play there most of the time now.

[melaskins 0]

Playing 1/2 live can be really frustrating. It really is like playing .01/.02 online. Maybe worse. You get a lot of guys that love to play junk and hit. A lot of people talk about people tighter live because it is embarrassing when they lose a big hand. The opposite aspect of that is that when they do hit, they get a minute of euphoria thinking they look brilliant when they hit their 28s for a flush over a set or AA. They pull out bill after bill looking for that big hit. They'll bust out, go to the ATM and bring back a couple hundred more. Some of them have so much money and are severe long term losers but they continue to play for those pots that they win a few hundred with ridiculous hands. The thing is, you usually can't make them fold. Sometimes I think that the thing to do is keep the pot small unless you have the nuts or near nuts and bet big on the river. That usually ends up being a leak though. Let me say this, if you had raised to 15 or 20, you probably would not have gotten the guy off of his hand. When he raised you, you wanted to teach him a lesson. Your ego got in the way of good poker play. If you get to the turn and the A hits, you might have saved some money if you had slow played it or just called his 60. But only if he would have been afraid of a full house. Which he probably wouldn't have. You probably would have pushed there any way and lost just as much money. Continue to play hands correctly and don't let your ego make your decisions for you. That's hard to do but it is vital to making money in live casino games.

[ghostlove 0]

same thing for me. what part of ct? im from east haddam

[Dubey 1,035]

Yuck.at the table, I'm probably calling the Minraise on the flop, and re-avaluating the turn but folding is probably the best option. That flop hits his range hard, and the almost min-raise is scary here from a LAG opponent.Also, like everyone said already, make it 15 preflop. Nobody folds for 10 once they have $2 in at 1/2.

[gt9550 0]

same thing for me. what part of ct? im from east haddam

Hahaha, I grew up in East Haddam. How old are you? How long have you lived there. I moved out of town about 7 years ago, but lived there for a long while.

[Fade2241 0]

Raise to $15 preflop and as others have said fold after that raise on the flop. I know they are aces but it's so easy for you to be beat and you have no redraw.

[mtdesmoines 3]

Why would you not suspect anything with a PF limp/call/ and a flop raise with that board?

[Lassedrengen 0]

If you get to the turn and the A hits, you might have saved some money if you had slow played it or just called his 60. But only if he would have been afraid of a full house. Which he probably wouldn't have.

I don't think he'll be afraid of a full house, with 7-9-10-A on the board ... it's very hard to holdat that point!