1-2 live cash game with AA
Hero AA first to act.
Raise 15 dollars, get called by 5 players.
Flop qc 10h 2d.
Bet 35 dollars.
I get 1 caller heads up.
This one caller is kind of a fish, calls big bets light. I had not played with him that long but I have seen him call big pre flop raises with marginal hands.
Turn 7d
I bet 45, villain calls.
River 2c.
I check, villain bets $65.
Hero?
I never like when the board pairs when you have AA.
It seems like a sucker bet, it seems like a bet villain wants me to call. How often can I expect to be good here? Do you just sigh and call and hope they have top pair with a good kicker?
I am aware that you may have other comments on how to play the whole hand better too which I welcome.
You have an SPR of 2:1. You have to decide OTF if you want to commit to the hand or give it up. There a ton of Qx and KJ hands that will lolcall you if you just jam the flop. Your flop bet is weak af. You need to be going hard on that flop to put others to the decision.
You're playing 100 bigs. If they have TT or 22, then gg and reload. No big deal.
Once you get this hand heads-up against a likely fish, your mindset should be to continue betting until: 1) A brutally bad turn/river card comes 2) You get raised 3) You have no money left to bet.
35 on flop is good. I don't hate the turn bet as a way to chunk out the rest of villain's assumed $150 left, but it HAS to be followed up with a river jam. So many possible hands to call us on river but check back when we check.
An old podcast by Bart Hanson demonstrates why check/call is almost always a suboptimal river line versus passive players. In short, passive players, loose or tight, just don't value bet your hand for you and/or bluff often enough to make check/call a better river line than either bet/fold or check/fold.
The deuce counterfeits his top two hands and we scoop the pot it was a good card for you. There's also very few deuces in his total range too. I would call the river as played.
If you're staying late just to get revenge on a certain player, that's a pretty huge leak that you need to fix immediately. If he showed you his cards preflop you would want him to call anyway so what's the big deal? There are tons of other players just like him of whom you'll get your $$ back anyway they're all one and t
Leak? It's still a game. If someone wants revenge they should do it. Catharsis is plenty worth it.
OP the most EV advice i can give you is that after you lost this hand you should either get up from the table for awhile or just go home, because you were clearly tilted.
