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Poker Copilot has confirmed two things I've suspected about my game. I'm addicted to 87s like a bad girlfriend (it does nothing but screw me and cost me money, but I love it anyway) and I lose money on AA because I don't know how to get away from it.
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LOL, PokerCoPilot tells u amazing things about your game ahahahah...nice email
lol, so wierd, i have/had the same problem with 87s. I used to play it a ton and then lookin back over my stats 87s was the hand i lost the most money on in tourneys.
Today in a multi-table tournament, with blinds at $100 and $50, I raised to $400 from late position with Ah,Ac. The button called immediately. The blinds folded.
I decided the button had something like A,K or A,Q. Didn't think K,K or Q,Q because he'd probably re-raise with those hands.
Flop came 10h, 6d, Qh. Decent enough flop for me. And I even had the backdoor flush draw in case he'd hit a set of 10s or something else odd had happened.
I checked to him, knowing how aggressive he'd been and hoping he'd bet out with A,Q. Sure enough, he bet about $1,000. I immediately went all in with my last $2,450.
He thought about it forever, then finally called, turning over - are you ready for this? - 10c,8c. (Yes, he'd actually called a 4x-BB raise with 10,8-suited.) The turn brought a harmless 4s. Then, as I mentally prepared to adjust to life as a big stack - stealing blinds and re-raising small stacks at will - I watched in shock as the river brought the 10c. And just like that, my tournament was over.
That beat was so nasty, the guy actually wrote in the chat box, "Srry."
I almost never chat but I felt like I had to say something, so I summoned up all the sportsmanship I possess and replied, "No problem. It's all in the game. Good luck."
He wrote, "thx". And that was that.
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Anyone care to share their two cents? Did I play that hand badly? My brother says I invited the suckout by checking the flop. He says the way I played the hand made my all-in look like a steal attempt by an A,K or A,J, and therefore, the guy was right to call with second pair.
True? False? Maybe?
All I know is, I _still_ don't know how to play Aces. I'm tempted to start treating them like 7,7 and just limping, then dumping them if I don't hit a set. It's been that bad for me.
Mtume,
His call in position with Tc8c isn't as bad as you think.
Would have been nicer if the blinds had 3bet and made it a nice preflop raisefest.
With the flush draw on the flop, you risk giving villain a free card by checking. If your intention is to get the chips in with your overpair and backdoor flushdraw, then lead and call his shove.
As played the checkshove is fine but you have little fold equity. He has to put 1450 in to have a chance to win ~4300, and he's rarely going to be that far behind.
The river sucks and was a bad beat.
- Arthur
Thanks for the response, Arthur. You're saying a lot of the same things my brother said. Looks like I did indeed play that hand poorly.
I really do over-value Aces. You used the phrase "over pair," which, of course, is exactly what I had. No more, no less. Would I have played K,K the same way with that board? Of course, not. I would've raised him immediately because I wouldn't have wanted him drawing to the flush or just getting lucky on the turn. But with Aces, I *wanted* to get all the money in the pot.
Also, as you pointed out, with second-pair, he had a tough time justifying a fold. I figured the odds - I was 79.39% to win when all the money went in. (God only knows what odds I had after the turn. Much higher, certainly.) Still, he couldn't have known that. And even if he did think he was behind, he might've still called because there was a legitimate chance that he was against A,K and I was just trying to steal.
I need to start thinking of Aces as top-pair, top-kicker. Maybe that'll help me play them better.
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