Overplaying AA ?

PiperT

Hi Folks

Two live hands from the SE that have been bugging me for a while....


Hand 1 - Live €50 PLHE
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I'm UTG+2.
UTG makes it 5 blind
UTG +1 makes it 15
I make it 45 with AA and its folded around to UTG+1 who calls.

Flop is something like 8high rainbow. (€98)
UTG+1 Leads for 55. (€153)
I make it 150.
UTG+1 eventually folds showing JJ and the usual patting the table ensues with nice bet comments from players not in the hand e.t.c.

I guess I just felt I could have played this more profitably. Opinions please ?

Hand 2 - SE 100 Freezeout
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1st level, blinds 25/50 stacks pretty much intact allround.

I find AA UTG and make it 225 to go.
3 callers and button (LAG) makes it 1,000.
SB/BB fold. Pot (1,975)

I think for a while and re-raise to 4,000.
All fold to button who hollywoods it for a while and folds TT face up.

So, I pick up a decent pot at this early stage but once again feel I probably could have played it more profitably. Opinions please ?


Of course, I'm always happy to be making money with AA but am I being too protective ?

sikes

shouldnt include results.

Hand1: What are the stacks? He generally has what he shows here, so I would just call the flop. You give him room to get away from it on the flop. Dont show your hand tho!

Hand2: What are the stacks? Seems fine tho. Picking up 2k uncontested is lovely, i assume stacks are around 7k.

Slash/ED

Unless you think he could have some kind of draw you could definitely flat call the flop especially with position in the first one.

Hand 2 is fine.

PiperT

sikes wrote:

shouldnt include results.

Don't think it matters in the context of my question tbh, but point taken.

sikes wrote:

Hand1: What are the stacks? He generally has what he shows here, so I would just call the flop. You give him room to get away from it on the flop. Dont show your hand tho!

Don't recall exact stack sizes but we were both circa 200BB's.

I didn't show my hand.

sikes wrote:

Hand2: What are the stacks? Seems fine tho. Picking up 2k uncontested is lovely, i assume stacks are around 7k.

Yeah, 7k stacks. It was only the 4th or 5th hand of level 1, no major action up to that point.

Thanks for the feedback.

RedJoker

Hand 1 - Any reason not to raise pot preflop?

Gus Ivey

i love both hands

valor

you have to include stack sizes when posting these type of hands, its ESSENTIAL information

I would generally just call the flop in #1

In #2, if there were no callers in between us I would call because stacks are great for a crai on most flops and we can even slowplay postflop. As is, I dont like your bet sizing of the 4 bet. You represent so much strength and he has absolutely no folding equity so he cant 5 bet bluff us. I would make it around 2.5-3k