AA on $1 / $2 Cash Tables

[gmatical]

Thought I should relay a related AA story form a couple of weeks ago.

Sarah and I were @ Crown playing some cash before our screening of Inception began.

We were on different tables ($2/3) and mine was fairly boring but for the fact there were 2 Hawthorn players on it (Clinton Young & Simon Taylor - who were both coincidently dropped the weekend following this Monday Session - Coincidence?), infact we were 6 handed for a bit so they broke up a table and filled our gaps.

1st hand after the new players (with decent stacks) sat down I wake up with AA. Unfortunately my $200 start stack had dwindled to about $140 after a messy AK hand 30 mins earlier.
UTG raise to $7 (a bit less then standard but he was new to the table)
Me (MP) re-raise to $21
Button (also new to table) Calls $21
UTG chucks in the extra $14

FLOP 10,9,2 Rainbow

UTG leads for $40
I Flat
Button ALL IN $90
UTG ALL IN $400 total (ish)
I call the rest of my stack

UTG Shows QJ (up and down draw)
Button K 10 (top pair 2nd kicker – or a squeeze play gone wrong)

Turn 10
River 3

I actually wasn’t even mad – cos they both had reasons for their actions – and we all cop the AA pain from time to time. Plus the side pot meant I didn’t have to reload.

So MattyMoo – I hope my tale shows that AA gets everyone and there aint alot we can do about it!



[maccatak11]

raise that flop with someone to act behind you imo.

[bennymacca]

raise that flop with someone to act behind you imo.

on a 9TX board, i agree with this

bad luck though

[maccatak11]

i always play faster on boards that contain combinations of 9/T/J with big pair or sets because there are so many scare cards that make life difficult for us on later streets.

Having said that, i don't know the table dynamics or player reads etc

[David]

Lucky there wasn't monster

[gmatical]

raise that flop with someone to act behind you imo.

It crossed my mind - and ironically the button who shoved said when we rolled our cards 'you flatting made me rule out an overpair'

I got what I wanted, just the 10 made me come unstuck.

Would a re-rasie have weeded out the K 10? Hmmmm can't be sure - perhaps, actually probably. Dang.

The open-ender would have likely called my re-raise (even if all in) he was that type of player. The next hand and got stacked on his flopped flush draw and bottom pair.

Ahhhhhhh hindsight!