1/3 AK Suited 500 max
Game is pretty passive except for an older guy, who is a fishy lag, other villains don't really matter in this hand. Table typically folds all hands that are not the nuts. Good table.
Effective stacks about 500 villain has me covered.
I'm in the small blind and theres 5 limps to me in the SB with AKdd, I raise to 30. 4 calls including villian in the HJ.
Flop is 833dd, I C-bet 100. Folds to villain who makes the call. Whats my next move on turns? Am I spewy for betting this big or being this aggressive?
Spoiler
Turn is an offsuit Jack, I jam for about 360. Villain calls. River brick I turn my hand over and villain turns over Q5dd unimproved.
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Pre is too small. Flop is too big but turn jam is good.
Fun hand
This is what I like about 1/3
You have a villain with nothing but a weak diamond draw on a paired board and he put the money in.
I like the way you played this hand
It was risky, but aggression wins
When he called flop may have slowed me down. It’s the old ‘takes a stronger hand to call than to bet’ logic. Maybe I’ve been giving these stations too much credit.
Don't start by posting results. It might not look so good if villain showed down A3s, 88, 99, etc. I like the play though. Shove should get a lot of folds. You are representing a big pair. You can't reasonably have a 3.
Interesting preflop spot with our hand at these stack sizes, imo. Not really thrilled at going to a low SPR very multiway pot OOP where everyone got fairly decent IO. Not sure if our result was expected with this sizing? But kinda also not loving going insanely large only to perhaps be called by the difficult guy OOP. One interesting line with the laggy guy in the mix would be to do a very small raise, almost just a juicer raise to $10. Laggy guy might attack that which we could 4bet, otherwise we probably setup a more playable bigger SPR.
Anhoo, SPR is 3 and we've flopped a crapload of equity. With this many people in the hand and the laggy guy, this is a perfect spot to check/jam and add a bunch of FE to our hand equity, imo.
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Check/Call or Check jam are both fine. You want max fold equity if you jam and it's unlikely you are against a boat - and very hard to get away from this hand anyways (you also aren't very deep) - and if checks through it's fine. If flop checks thru - check turn as well - but we are no longer wanting to check/raise.
Leading is not ideal - you fold out all the hands that would of bet/folded to you - and you are bloating a pot for someone that has a hand like TT or 8x where they can almost play perfectly against you.
How would you play if you had a hand like 88 or A3?
Appreciate the responses. My logic in playing so aggressively was to put pressure on the smaller pairs JJ, TT, lower. In a pot with so many limps I was the only one who could have aces, and probably kings, while I lose it all vs 88 and some 3's.
I'd definitely play it similarly with A3, looking to get value from flush draws and 1 street vs an 8. With 88 I'd definitely not be so aggressive hoping someone would catch up. Probably have to balance a little better
You could play it as a check/shove. As played better represents JJ-AA. Either way, it is hard to represent a big pair, because you might be afraid of trips with one. However, you need to play for a shove.
