aces UTG

[Ironside]

not long affter rebuy period

no reads

i dont normally play more than a 5r and i am lost here

PokerStars Game #57619946353: Tournament #406010647, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (60/120) - 2011/02/13 22:17:13 WET [2011/02/13 17:17:13 ET]
Table '406010647 257' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: GvanS (4907 in chips)
Seat 2: tytkto (13315 in chips)
Seat 3: asakia (5848 in chips)
Seat 4: thesteri (10003 in chips)
Seat 5: MagisticBull (5405 in chips)
Seat 6: alexey64 (7420 in chips)
Seat 7: Ironside (9280 in chips)
Seat 8: maligo3 (3160 in chips)
Seat 9: fido1957 (10380 in chips)
GvanS: posts the ante 20
tytkto: posts the ante 20
asakia: posts the ante 20
thesteri: posts the ante 20
MagisticBull: posts the ante 20
alexey64: posts the ante 20
Ironside: posts the ante 20
maligo3: posts the ante 20
fido1957: posts the ante 20
MagisticBull: posts small blind 60
alexey64: posts big blind 120
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Ironside [ ]
Ironside: raises 120 to 240
maligo3: folds
fido1957: calls 240
GvanS: calls 240
tytkto: folds
asakia: folds
thesteri: folds
MagisticBull: folds
alexey64: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [ ]
alexey64: checks
Ironside: bets 720
fido1957: calls 720
GvanS: folds
alexey64: raises 2040 to 2760

[GreekStein]

Open to a little more pre. As played, ship it holler

[Ironside]

i hollered till both called

i hollered when i hit the case ace on turn  to stuff alexey's 55

i cried when the A3s got there on river

was just checking if i can/should fold the hand on flop

[Rupert]

Frankly preflop is a huge mistake IMO.  This is probably going to come across as really condescending but i'll post it anyway The reason we raise bigger from early positions/SB is because we are OOP/have lots of people to get through so are opening a tighter range.  Obviously a number of other factors come into play, particularly in tournaments (mostly effective stack sizes) but in this case we are suitably deep that a minraise is bad. If you take this to an extreme, imagine we just raised AA UTG and folded everything else.  Obviously not every player will pick up on this, but people who realise this could call very wide since they have huge implied odds if they hit a hand.  I don't know what the optimal amount would be but it could mean opening literally as big as 700-800 if we were just opening AA in order to not get exploited.  In practice this obviously isn't the case and we are opening more hands but our opening range is still pretty tight and we are deep enough to not warrant a minraise.  Obviously the same logic applies to why we can raise very small from late position.

Postflop I don't think i'd cbet 4 way or if I did fold to the raise don't think we get it in with very good equity very often here when they raise wet boards