2 cash game hands from Vegas

connie147

There are probably a lot more than 2 hands I want to put up from my week of cash games in Vegas, but these two hands are of interest to me and I'd like to know if the cash players here will tear apart my play or tell me I played them well. results later.

Hand 1(1-2 NL):--- Table packed with weak players with only 2 players of decent ability(neither of which is involved in this pot).Im on the table for about an hour and would have a tag image(if any of them noticed). Im in seat 4, player in seat 5 has limped reraised 4 times since I joined the table and I only got to see one of his hands(AJo).I hope to take advantage of this. I(350) limp UTG with Ad-Kd, he(300) limps with me as does the rest of the table until it gets back to the BB(300) who makes it 7 to go.(BB has made similar small raises 3 times earlier and folded to reraises PF).
I call the 7 and UTG+2 makes it 20 to go(as I expected).He gets 5 callers including the original raiser before it gets back to me so I push for 350. Good or bad?

Hand 2:(1-2 NL, different table, different day) Again about an hour into play, again a lot of poor players with only one that I'd regard as being any good and lots of easy money to be collected. Villian in this hand has been on the table about 30mins, young lag trying to bully the table and has got lucky twice when all-in,rivering his opponnent both times to double up twice to 400(last time was when he raised with Q-2, called a reraise and called an all-in on a flop of 772(opponnent had AA but he rivered a 2).
The young lag(400) is on the button, 2 limpers before me, I(mp)(450) limp with 8h-9h, lag raises to 15, solid player(250) calls and I call. Flop Ac-10h-7h, solid player leads out for 30,I call and button calls. Turn is Ah, solid player checks, I lead out for 100, lag pushes for about 350 total, solid player folds, me??

Hope Ive given ye enough info to go on.All comments appreciated.

cardshark202

I like hand 1.
Hand 2 is an instacall against this guy by the sounds of things. Seems like the worst case scenario for you here is to run into trips.

ianmc38

Agree with Reggie on both.

I like the first one and I think its a standard call against this guy based on your read.

Lissavalley

I like hand 1 also. Hand 2 is an instant call against this donk.

LuckyLloyd

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Ste05

Hand 1: I like it up until the push, which I don't mind at all, but I think a raise of $120 - $150, followed by a Flop push would probably have had the same results, except you might have got some extra value from your hand.

Hand 2: Easy call.

jhegarty

Hand 1: All is good...

Hand 2: If the guy is a donkey be carefull of a house... donkey don't know how to slow play... (i would still call though , buy mabey not as quickly as some others here)..

mewso

Ignore - blind as a bat. Lloyd-itis I'm calling it.

sikes

LuckyLloyd wrote:

Should we not raise into the pot UTG most of the time with AK suited??

most of the time, but we have created a scenario that has a greater expectation becuase of our reads on the table. raising utg is just so boring though obv profitable with AK. however by getting the stack in preflop here, its pretty super and our line is so weak that we could get looked up by worse aces, and a pair calling is still profitable for us, AA/KK is only a minimal possibility in the UTG+2 range given the read.

Bandana boy

Hand 1 I like a lot
Yeah we could bet smaller to entice in some hands but 100 uncontested is pretty good eating and we could have a horror scenario of raising to 100 and getting 2 or more callers so push is great

Hand 2
Call we should be in good shape against this guy and he has driven out the only guy we are worried about
I raise that flop a lot

Hectorjelly

Hand 1 is perfect, just open raising would be fine but this is far superior. If you make it 7 to go utg and get several callers your going to have to let it go on most flops anyway.

Hand 2 marginal call, I think its unlikely the LAG has trips, I think theres a good chance he has a flush. You cant fold such a strong hand against him in this spot though

Marq

How was Cuba?

connie147

Ok its results time. 1st hand my push got folded all the way around to the BB who called me. He had AA:eek: . Chatting with him about the hand afterwards, he told me he only raised small cause he wanted to keep players in the pot. I told him he played it perfectly. (anyway, i got it all back off him later on when he made a similar play and I flopped the nuts with 5c-7c with a 3-4-6 flop, he had KK and paid me off).

Hand 2, the villian turned over A-10 for the nut house. I didnt hit my straight flush on the river so buy-in lost. Thanks for yere replies. Looks like most of ye would have taken the same line as me.

Hectorjelly

Marq wrote:

How was Cuba?

awful, im going to take a few days to recover then write about what a **** country it is.