What would you do? AK in a re-raised pot.
In 2-5 game at the Bellagio, I had AKo. I open raised to 15. 1 caller, then button reraised to 60. I called the reraise, the other player folded. Pot is about 135 (after rake).
The button is a solid player, and I play tight. He has something good, probably AA, KK, QQ, or AKs.
Flop all small disconnected cards rainbow. We both checked.
Turn was an Ace, giving me TPTK. Normally I would feel confident I had the best hand, except the button had reraised preflop. I believed if he is willing to put money in the pot, he probably also has AK or AA (for a set).
I did not want to give him a free card because he could hit a big set. I bet 60, making the pot 195.
He thought for a long time (probably at least 3 minutes). I was suspicious he was going to make a move. Then he raised all in for his remaining 235.
Pot is 430 and it will cost 175 to call.
What would you do?
Bob
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What position were you in? In later positions id be inclined to 4bet, esp if he will fold JJ/QQ/AK. I wouldn't expect AA/KK to be checking flop very often
The effective stack is under $300, so I shove pre.
On the turn, there's $255 in the pot already ($135+$120) and you are getting more than 2 to 1. You can't fold getting such odds with a hand as strong as the one you have.
Turn is an obvious check on a card he’s going to bet frequently.
I would check call turn and check river.
295 starting at 2/5 (Which cuts against the "solid player" vibe, IMHO) this is a 4! pf jam all day OOP with AKo.
On turn, as OD pointed out, this is a check-call or check-jam if you think it'll get called. It's <60 bigs pf, nearly 40 of them are in the pot already, H has top/top, and chip runners are things. There isn't a lot to fret about here.
In the future, it's helpful to include the effective starting stacks. Doing some maths, it looks like he started with $295?
If that's right, I question how good he can be, playing 2/5 with less than 60BB's in front of him. At that stack depth, and at this SPR, I don't think we can fold TPTK on the turn.
As for the rest of the hand -
PRE - when we RFI, get one flat caller, and then get 3B form the BTN, I think I prefer to 4B here, rather than flat call and take a chance the caller in the middle will think he's getting good enough odds to come along, forcing us to play a bloated multi-way pot OOP. When V is only starting out with $295, and he's 3B to $60, I think I just jam pre, for max fold equity.
FLOP - Checking from OOP as the pre-flop caller seems pretty standard.
TURN - think I'd prefer to check-jam, not lead out. Let V bet to rep that A. If he's got AA, we're not getting away from our hand, and if he's got worse AX, he's not getting away from his.
I wouldn't worry about giving him a free card. He 3B us pre, repping a big PP or strong AX. His PP's are drawing to 2 outs. We're either chopping with AK, losing to AA, or way ahead of worse AX, which would be drawing to 3 outs.
If we check to him twice, a lot of his range is going to start betting, either for value, or protection, or as a bluff.
Better hand history please. What's the effective stack?
Could nit pick a lot of the HH presentation, and also the preflop thought processes which describes a short stack "solid player" who is only 3betting AA, KK, QQ, or AKs on the BTN.
All of that is noise though vs. the terrible turn lead.
Would be funny if V is doing this with AQ assuming we are bad ... but in general I'd assume it's a bad spot after you (figuratively) donk the turn and he shoves. So much better if we x/shove turn or x/call.
tl;dr What OmahaDonk said.
