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Is this too thin? Doubled up with AA showed down, playing snug, only been here like 3 orbits.  Then this happened:


PokerStars Hand #81625185284: Tournament #576010394, $20+$2 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (25/50) - 2012/06/07 17:34:54 WET [2012/06/07 12:34:54 ET]
Table '576010394 59' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Helmut0711 (3993 in chips)
Seat 2: rusxxxx (2625 in chips)
Seat 3: HERO (6000 in chips)
Seat 4: hukefafai (3200 in chips)
Seat 5: flips4rolls (3720 in chips)
Seat 6: janwienk (3000 in chips)
Seat 7: SteenD (3060 in chips)
Seat 8: TheAmazonas (3450 in chips)
Seat 9: alexxis1980 (12362 in chips)
rusxxxx: posts small blind 25
HERO: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [Jd  Ahrt]
hukefafai: folds
flips4rolls: folds
janwienk: raises 100 to 150
SteenD: folds
TheAmazonas: folds
alexxis1980: folds
Helmut0711: folds
rusxxxx: folds
HERO: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [3h 6s Jc]
HERO: checks
janwienk: bets 200
HERO: calls 200
*** TURN *** [3h 6s Jc] [Ts]
HERO: checks
janwienk: bets 385
HERO: calls 385
*** RIVER *** [3h 6s Jc Ts] [Ad]
HERO: checks
janwienk: bets 565
HERO: raises 4700 to 5265 and is all-in
janwienk: calls 1700 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (3000) returned to HERO
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HERO: shows [Jd  Ahrt] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
janwienk: shows [Tc Td] (three of a kind, Tens)
janwienk collected 6025 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6025 | Rake 0
Board [3h 6s Jc Ts Ad]
Seat 1: Helmut0711 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: rusxxxx (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: HERO (big blind) showed [Jd Ah] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 4: hukefafai folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: flips4rolls folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: janwienk showed [Tc Td] and won (6025) with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 7: SteenD folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: TheAmazonas folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: alexxis1980 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Figured my line looks really weird to him, can value town himself with ak, aq, fold the same hand, call with Ax spades, worse two pair, aT, and it's not completely outside the realm of possibility that I floated oop with overs and backdoor equity like kqss.

Not too sure tho, c/c seemed like I'd lose out on a fair bit of hand, as I think my hand here is alot stronger than it ought to be.

Think pre is standard, would appreciate thoughts on any parts of the hand you think are interesting/would do different

Think you played it perfectly imo. Really unlucky to run into the top of his range, because you almost certainly get called by one pair hands and worse two pair hands.

hey,

i think folding pre flop is fine/good we dont have any huge implied odds and its pre antes so no need to get busy yet.

folding pre did genuinely cross my mind. like a9o is snap fold, feel like i'd prefer to three bet ato rather than flat (if I hadn't folded that is), i think ajo is just good enough to get value from the villains range? but related to the idea of not getting too busy, thats why I was contemplating c/c otr, i have a relatively large stack if I lose, but thought that he had enough worse hands in his range to make c/r profitable, as I expect to win there pretty often (either by getting worse to call, or when he folds).

what are you doing with hands like a5s-aTs pre pleno/everyone?

+1

I would also look to play this pretty passively pre antes. There's always so much set mining in these early levels without any really decent reads on opponents and. I'm happy to chck/call 3 streets, potentially picking up a 40bb pot with a 4/1 river call. I'm just weary of doing half of my stack while we're still pretty deep and miles from the $$$

fold pre. as played c/call river. your rarely gona get called by worse imo.