Trip Aces

[byronkincaid]

STAGE #458373644: HOLDEM NO LIMIT $2 - 2006-09-29 09:22:08 (ET)
Table: EDWARD DR. (Real Money) Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 5 - BLUEDOG21 ($80.10 in chips)
Seat 9 - CHEFRM ($413.60 in chips)
Seat 1 - GOTCHA_ ($395.82 in chips)
Seat 2 - RASHAN ($269.28 in chips)
CHEFRM - Posts small blind $1
GOTCHA_ - Posts big blind $2
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to GOTCHA_ [ ]
RASHAN - Calls $2
BLUEDOG21 - Calls $2
CHEFRM - Folds
GOTCHA_ - Checks
*** FLOP *** [Ah ]
GOTCHA_ - Bets $6
RASHAN - Calls $6
BLUEDOG21 - Folds
*** TURN *** [Ah ] [As]
GOTCHA_ - Bets $12
RASHAN - Calls $12
*** RIVER *** [Ah As] []
GOTCHA_ - Bets $20
RASHAN - Raises $62 to $62

I don't beat much here. Rashan is a solid player. The pot is $105 it is $42 to call. Easy fold or gotta call?

[boldie]

hmmm...I would call this. true you might be behind to Ace better kicker or Ace has a kicker that's on the board but what do you want from your ace?

If he has an Ace + 2,9,10,j,q,k he has you beat anyother ace splits the pot. I am thinking he won't have small pp under the gun and play it like this BTW.

[M3boy]

Nothing to see here - move along!!!

Must of had a brain lapse. Thanks Bongo

[Bongo]

Playing AAAQ9 so can't beat any ace, only split, loses to A with K,Q,J,T,9,2 though as well as QQ, 99 and 22 who have made a full house.
Can only beat a complete bluff.

$42 into a $105 pot hoping to win half of it?

I don't think I like the call myself.

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Yuk Yuk Yuk.. If he is as solid as you say then i fold here

[Bongo]

I'd have been tempted to check the river too...

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Thats a fair point Bongo.. i think i would have check called - which would be a much easier decision (i would think).. rather than having to call off a whole lot more because of his raise.

[Bongo]

It also encourages a bluff if they have called with some odd hand too.

[snoopy1239]

I'd be worried as he soon as he called the rainbow flop. He's flatcalled pre-flop and called a bet on an Ace high flop that has no draws, sounds like he either has a middling Ace or a set. Considering he is a good solid player, I doubt he'd call with a 9, and you can be pretty sure he didn't call preflop with a 2.

I'd fold.

[byronkincaid]

Yeah check/calling seems like the best thing to do. I called and he had 99 for the full house. This hand is similar.

STAGE #458417180: HOLDEM NO LIMIT $4 - 2006-09-29 11:37:50 (ET)
Table: GALLEON DR. (Real Money) Seat #8 is the dealer
Seat 8 - FLASHFEVER ($309.38 in chips)
Seat 9 - GOTCHA_ ($227.40 in chips)
Seat 1 - SPDRACR307 ($154.76 in chips)
Seat 2 - BOXOFSOX22 ($726.10 in chips)
Seat 4 - BOOMBLASTER ($522.80 in chips)
Seat 6 - TARALDSEN ($197.50 in chips)
GOTCHA_ - Posts small blind $2
SPDRACR307 - Posts big blind $4
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to GOTCHA_ [As ]
BOXOFSOX22 - Folds
BOOMBLASTER - Calls $4
TARALDSEN - Folds
FLASHFEVER - Folds
GOTCHA_ - Calls $2
SPDRACR307 - Checks
*** FLOP *** [ ]
GOTCHA_ - Checks
SPDRACR307 - Checks
BOOMBLASTER - Checks
*** TURN *** [ ] []
GOTCHA_ - Bets $8
SPDRACR307 - Folds
BOOMBLASTER - Calls $8
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
GOTCHA_ - Bets $20
BOOMBLASTER - Raises $56 to $56

[MrsLime]

*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to GOTCHA_ [As ]
BOXOFSOX22 - Folds
BOOMBLASTER - Calls $4
TARALDSEN - Folds
FLASHFEVER - Folds
GOTCHA_ - Calls $2
SPDRACR307 - Checks
*** FLOP *** [ ]
GOTCHA_ - Checks
SPDRACR307 - Checks
BOOMBLASTER - Checks
*** TURN *** [ ] []
GOTCHA_ - Bets $8
SPDRACR307 - Folds
BOOMBLASTER - Calls $8
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
GOTCHA_ - Bets $20
BOOMBLASTER - Raises $56 to $56

I don't like your betting... if advice/analysis is to be offered, it might be much more useful and/or enlightening for you if you could post WHY you did what you did on each street (particularly on the river). Then we have some insight to your thought process (or lack thereof).

[NoflopsHomer]

Then we have some insight to your thought process (or lack thereof).

Dispense with the personal comments, they're not helpful.

The second one you have to check the river.

[byronkincaid]

*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to GOTCHA_ [As ]
BOXOFSOX22 - Folds
BOOMBLASTER - Calls $4
TARALDSEN - Folds
FLASHFEVER - Folds
GOTCHA_ - Calls $2
SPDRACR307 - Checks
*** FLOP *** [ ]
GOTCHA_ - Checks
SPDRACR307 - Checks
BOOMBLASTER - Checks
*** TURN *** [ ] []
GOTCHA_ - Bets $8
SPDRACR307 - Folds
BOOMBLASTER - Calls $8
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
GOTCHA_ - Bets $20
BOOMBLASTER - Raises $56 to $56

I don't like your betting... if advice/analysis is to be offered, it might be much more useful and/or enlightening for you if you could post WHY you did what you did on each street (particularly on the river). Then we have some insight to your thought process (or lack thereof).

Am I right in thinking that you're Jen's mother?

[MrsLime]

Then we have some insight to your thought process (or lack thereof).

Ok, calm down, it's not a personal attack. Let me rephrase -- I should have said:

I really don't think you have thought any of your bets through. Especially the bet on the river, which demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the point of betting.  Please explain/justify why you made the bets, as I am sure the process of doing so will show you why your actions were incorrect.

(And no, I am not Jen's mother.)

[byronkincaid]

I think you could probably be a great help to many people on this forum including myself, yet most of your posts just seem to be trying to wind people up. Why tell me to calm down? What have I written that could possibly indicate that I am not calm?