Weird spot with A♣ A♦ in Live Cash Game $2/$3 - any advise?
Scenario:
Playing a live cash game @ The Star Casino in Sydney Aus.
Blinds: $2/$3 with optional for a live $6 straddle UTG. Rake is $15 capped.
8-handed. Everyone is sitting at roughly 160 BB stacks each.
I wake up with A♣ A♦ in the straddle so my position is UTG. The two guys to my left call, the SB calls the straddle.
Pre-Flop Action:
Hand: A♣ A♦
Position: UTG (Straddle)
Action: 3 callers, I raise to $30, all 3 call.
Pot Size: $27 (limpers) + $30 (my raise) + $90 (callers) = $147 pre flop pot.
Flop: K♣ 10♠ 3♣
Action: SB checks,I bet $65 into $147, 2 fold, SB check-raises to $130.
I call.
Pot Size: $342.
Turn: 9♣ (flush gets there along with the QJ straight)
Action: SB checks, I check.
Pot Size: $372.
Pot Size: $592
River: K♥
Action: SB bets $220.
Hero?
Seems like a fold since there is a lot of hands that can beat me. Kx, flush, straights. However I wonder if i should have 4-bet the flop after being 3-bet to protect my hand against draws. In a multi-way pot, I was playing with more caution as people can get carried away with AA.
Would love to hear your thoughts on how to improve.
Regards,
Chris
6 Replies
This seems fine although preflop is too small.
You can discount top set on the flop but there's lots of KT, I think calling is fine, you could probably make reasonable arguments for 3betting or folding the flop as well. (The initial cbet is fine here as well)
Turn card is so bad that it's good. Is there any merit at all in turning your hand into a bluff? There's just a slight chance you're up against a hand like AK/KQ so probably not. Again you can at least give some consideration to a river bluff raise, but folding would be standard and fine (especially after your turn check).
Welcome to the forum, OP. Please don't post results with your hand history, including your last action. They bias people's advice. I edited them out. Please wait until discussion dies down, or at least 24 hours, whichever is longer, to post results.
Im snap folding that river.
I think as played is fine, but im jamming blank turns. My preferred line is jamming flop. People mostly raise draws otf and made hands ott, so just go ahead and get it in vs FD/SD now. But you could also just call and deny equity (or get called by even weaker) by jamming blank turns.
SB can be playing anything there. He was the last to call a straddle and the last to call your raise. Him being aggressive here is telling you something. You're beat. Move along.
Why are you straddling? It lowers the effective stack sizes and favors weak players.
This feels like an easy fold.
Flop raise was likely a FD, SD, set, 2P, or perhaps sometimes top pair.
All of those now have us beat on the River. Easy fold.
