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ThinkerJE:
The following 2 hands occurred over the weekend and I folded both times, question is am I trying to be a hero by folding pocket aces.

Home game, good read on opponent, been naming his exact hands all night.  I raise UTG with AA and he thinks for ages on the button before making the flat call.  Flop comes Q2Q and I bet out around 2/3 pot.  He pushes all in and although I have him covered it will cripple me if I call and lose.  Into the tank, I reason that he would not put his chips in without a queen and so fold, turns out he had TT, doh!!!

Online SNG, first hand, 3 limpers, SB completes, I"m BB with AA and raise to 150 (15/30 blinds), called by UTG and button.  Flop 8h 4s 2h and I bet 350, UTG pushes and button re pushes.  I figure one has a set and the other a flush draw so fold.  UTG shows 99 and button Ah 4h, turn 2c river Ad, doh (2) !!!

Thoughts???

jbworldwide:

--- Quote from: ThinkerJE on February 23, 2009, 19:14:56 PM ---
The following 2 hands occurred over the weekend and I folded both times, question is am I trying to be a hero by folding pocket aces.

Home game, good read on opponent, been naming his exact hands all night.  I raise UTG with AA and he thinks for ages on the button before making the flat call.  Flop comes Q2Q and I bet out around 2/3 pot.  He pushes all in and although I have him covered it will cripple me if I call and lose.  Into the tank, I reason that he would not put his chips in without a queen and so fold, turns out he had TT, doh!!!

Online SNG, first hand, 3 limpers, SB completes, I"m BB with AA and raise to 150 (15/30 blinds), called by UTG and button.  Flop 8h 4s 2h and I bet 350, UTG pushes and button re pushes.  I figure one has a set and the other a flush draw so fold.  UTG shows 99 and button Ah 4h, turn 2c river Ad, doh (2) !!!

Thoughts???



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you are thinking about it too much  ;)

LongshanksED:
1st hand

chances of him having a 3rd 3 when 2 are on the board is low - now and again the villian does have it but when 2 are on the board im confident of my bullets being good


2nd hand
im never folding in this position - if your up againsta set - **** happens and with the flush draw then if your outdrawn it happens but again im never folding here


as the previous poster said - you seem to be thinking too much, over anaylsing maybe?

Swinebag:
First hand.

I"d definitely call here as this player is possibly using your own image against you.

second hand.

I think its a good fold. Not that I would ever lay down AA in this situation because I"m not good enough to.

RioRodent:
I think I struggle to fold in either situation... the first scenario, being a live home game, is obviously much more dependant on how well you know each other"s game.

In the SnG, certainly at the lower levels (upto say $20), with half the field already having limped in, I think you need a bigger PF re-raise. 150 chips just doesn"t look like a large enough chunk out of 1500 to get all the dross out of the hand, especially if one the EP"s calls... it"s likely they"ll all come along!

You need to make it 600-800... let them know they are gonna be risking their whole stack! In fact just pushing PF, with all those limpers, is probably a better move, the guy with 99 will call often enough to make it profitable.

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