I know that I played this hand badly, but...

[Karabiner]

I played the HO tourney(half PLO, half PLH) at Caesar's on Friday and despite a tough table draw with Kathy Leibert sat two to my left and losing half of my 5k starting stack in the first two levels, I managed to garner an averageish 16k by the second break by which time only 35 of the original 93 players remained.

I was pleased when my table broke and I was able to escape Kathy's beady eye, there were now just three tables left and the game switched to Omaha. Blinds were now 400/800 and I picked up this hand in the SB:

Ah As

There were a couple of limpers and I decided to raise the pot (bad decision #1 with hindsight)

UTG limper is the only caller and the flop comes:



I decide to fire 6k with my bare Ace and fwo pairs (bad decision #2 ?) and the Yank almost beat me into the pot with the rest of his stack leaving me 5k of my remaining 6.5k to call, which I did cryingly (bad decision #3) and he showed:



Which stood up and he got my last 1500 in the very next hand when my 899T missed everything.

On reflection I feel that I had played that first hand about as badly as I could imho but it is also possible that I could have run into trouble however I played it. Any views and opinions would be appreciated.


 

[tikay]

I think once you'd decided to Raise it up Ralph, you were pretty much doomed on that Flop.

It just panned out wrong.

I'm not 100% sure I'd have Raised pre, I know you had AA, but not much else, & anyone with mid-connected straighting cards is going to look you up. But once the Flop came, both hands probably played themselves.

I'm sure the experts will be along soon & put us both right!

Meanwhile, what about Redknapp to Spurs eh? Apparently Kinnear was not available for a month or two, so they'll go for him next time.......Shame they never looked across the road to the Emirates Cathedral, to see how to appoint proper Managers.

[EvilPie]

Don't think I would've been raising the pot from the SB when there's already been a couple of limpers. You're likely to be called and end up playing a bad hand oop.

Personally I flat call and treat it as a set mining exercise without a matching suit for at least one of the aces.

Firing with the bare ace is unlikely to work here as well because any flush is already made. If there's only 2 hearts out there he might not want to pay to draw to a lower flush but if he's already got it I can't see him being too bothered that he's not got the ace.

If you had the nut flush here would you pot it immediately? I doubt it unless you're representing the steal. Your bet looks more like a set to me or just a steal attempt following a raise pre. I don't think any flush is going away here even if it's a weak one.

I can't think of many hands that pot this flop oop (unless it's Flushy with 2222). Maybe trips if you've decided to committ but other than that I think pot control would be much better.

Once he's gone all in I think you've got to pass. I know it's easy to say with hindsight but what are you beating? Only a bluff from a short stack who knows that he has no FE. That would be a bad time to bluff I think. He simply has to have a hand to go all in here.

[mondatoo]

I think once you'd decided to Raise it up Ralph, you were pretty much doomed on that Flop.

It just panned out wrong.

I'm not 100% sure I'd have Raised pre, I know you had AA, but not much else, & anyone with mid-connected straighting cards is going to look you up. But once the Flop came, both hands probably played themselves.

I'm sure the experts will be along soon & put us both right!

Meanwhile, what about Redknapp to Spurs eh? Apparently Kinnear was not available for a month or two, so they'll go for him next time.......Shame they never looked across the road to the Emirates Cathedral, to see how to appoint proper Managers.

Oi there Mr Kendall

Leave our Kinnear alone 

[Karabiner]

Don't think I would've been raising the pot from the SB when there's already been a couple of limpers. You're likely to be called and end up playing a bad hand oop.

Personally I flat call and treat it as a set mining exercise without a matching suit for at least one of the aces.

Firing with the bare ace is unlikely to work here as well because any flush is already made. If there's only 2 hearts out there he might not want to pay to draw to a lower flush but if he's already got it I can't see him being too bothered that he's not got the ace.

If you had the nut flush here would you pot it immediately? I doubt it unless you're representing the steal. Your bet looks more like a set to me or just a steal attempt following a raise pre. I don't think any flush is going away here even if it's a weak one.

I can't think of many hands that pot this flop oop (unless it's Flushy with 2222). Maybe trips if you've decided to committ but other than that I think pot control would be much better.

Once he's gone all in I think you've got to pass. I know it's easy to say with hindsight but what are you beating? Only a bluff from a short stack who knows that he has no FE. That would be a bad time to bluff I think. He simply has to have a hand to go all in here.

I agree with almost all of that Matt, and can only put it down to temporary(?) insanity after moving away from what was a very tough table and wanting to make a statement(Imadonk?) at my new one. I would limp pre-flop here nine times out of ten usually, but I would also have bet out 6K with the nut flush almost all of the time.