Pocket Aces - KKK flop - Whats the best play?

DubTony · 12-04-2006 08:28PM #1

I played in a pub tournament last week and with 12 (I think) players left I drew AA in the Big Blind. My image was tight aggressive. With blinds at 2,000 / 4,000 I raised after two limpers to 12,000 making the pot 22,000. I got one caller who'd joined the table a few hands earlier. Stacks were even at 41,000 each after the bets went in.

I don't have a read on my opponent other than he'd been in all hands since joining the table. (Can't say any more as I was a bit overwhelmed to have made it that far.

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This hand has been haunting me all week, as I feel I played it "strangely".

The flop came KKK. I was first to act.

What should have been my best play?

RoundTower · 12-04-2006 08:37PM

Raise more preflop. Doesn't really matter if you bet or check here, it should all be going in eventually.

Norwich Fan Rob · 12-04-2006 09:10PM

raise more pre flop, check the flop, u cant pass, tough if he has a king, otherwise he is behind, and very unlikely he can overtake you, let him try and fill up or bet a lower house.

Goodluck2me · 12-04-2006 09:51PM

check it down hit your two aces and then put it all in take his money and all of the bad beat pot!

fuzzbox · 13-04-2006 08:15AM

Bet.

sunzz · 13-04-2006 08:47AM

Im betting this, Im suspecting your donkey has a lower house in this scenario.

Norwich Fan Rob · 13-04-2006 08:55AM

if he has a lower house, he will bet anyway, dont see the point in leading at this on the flop, all he will do is fold a worse hand.

Lafortezza · 13-04-2006 09:02AM

Check and give him a free turn card, if you bet he will likely fold any non-pair hand. You want him to hit.

brianmc · 13-04-2006 09:13AM

put money in pot

sunzz · 13-04-2006 09:15AM

I dont see him calling a 12 k raise with anything less than a premium hand/pp so I don't think he will lay this down to a bet on the flop. I'd also be trying to build the pot here to.

Waylander · 13-04-2006 09:19AM

I think a check may be the best play here. You dont want him to fold, if he has the K I'd have resigned myself to paying him off, so I would give him the opportunity to think he is the aggressor.

DubTony · 13-04-2006 04:45PM

NorwichFanRob wrote:

if he has a lower house, he will bet anyway, dont see the point in leading at this on the flop, all he will do is fold a worse hand.

sunzz wrote:

I dont see him calling a 12 k raise with anything less than a premium hand/pp so I don't think he will lay this down to a bet on the flop. I'd also be trying to build the pot here to.

lafortezza wrote:

Check and give him a free turn card, if you bet he will likely fold any non-pair hand. You want him to hit.

All these thought crossed my mind but there was one major factor that kept niggling at me. Having never played in a pub game I was amazed at how bad the standard was with people calling all ins on any street (even the river) with an A high. At the earlier tables any time anyone made a big bet, it was viewed as a bluff, or trying to steal and always got a call (or maybe they didn't want to look like they'd been forced off the hand).

There was only one card in the deck to be scared of so I felt that a crazy, mad, "I'm stealing the pot" type play might just get a call. If he had the King, so be it. Hoping he'd figure I was stealing, and knowing that most of these guys holding an ace or any pair would "keep me honest", I pushed.

He thought for little more than a second and called with A4.

That set me up nicely to get blinded away on a card dead final table.

I realise that it wasn't the best way to play it but for the situation I felt it had a chance.

Thanks for the opinions lads.

kincsem · 13-04-2006 05:39PM

Kneel down at the side of the table and pray out loud for runner, runner AA.

Pocket Aces - KKK flop - Whats the best play?

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