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Borgata WPT Main......AA on button

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October 8, 2011 - 11:04 pm

WPT Borgata $3500, 100/200/25 ante

Very Solid table. Tony Dunst (Bond18), Jenn Shahade (Chess champ/Solid pro-semi pro), Matt Salzberg (TV Exc Prod “Weeds”, solid LA, cashed in WSOP main, on ESPN last tues)

Matt- 16k

Hero-35k

Jenn-50k

C/O- Matt opens to 600

Button- HERO (Me-Super Donk) flats

SB-Jenn, squeezes to 1750

C/O-calls the reraise

Now back to me on the button with AA. Best options?

I had been playing kinda tight. No one getting out of line at table. Everyone was folding to most of my 3 or 4 bets. Both Jen and Matt were experienced and solid.

I flatted Matt because he seemed to be playing a wide range, I was in position with AA and thought I slow play a bit because I was betting all my big pairs prior to this hand…….

Again, best option here or would you have done something else after the initial raise comes to you?

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October 9, 2011 - 12:40 am

looks to me that you may have a chance to build a pot here i make it 4k and pray that Jen has KK, AK or even QQ get 1 of them to flat and the pot has 10 k in the middle now which is a really difineing moment in the tourney for you and you hold AA there even going to flat you with JJ cause your all so super deep and because your so deep is why i think you can raise here cause there flatting so many hands and you crush everything except AA

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October 9, 2011 - 12:12 pm

Yeah, you could even go smaller than 4k since your IP and it might make Jen spaz on you with a worse pair. She probably has a pretty good hand here because with these stack sizes she should be expecting you to call almost 100% of the time if Matt folds.

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October 9, 2011 - 2:55 pm

Agree with rest. You hit a gold mine once Jenn squeezes in the blinds and he flats. Build the pot for sure here, just keep your tongue in your mouth. smile

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October 9, 2011 - 11:24 pm

Of course my ass was happy as hell when Jen squeezes and Matt flats her raise. I thought about it for a minute or so and popped it to 5k. My feeling was that I really though both had good hands, at least I was hoping for that. They both folded immediately. Later, Jen told me she had AQ. At the time I felt and thought it was absolutely the right play, but after teh day, this was one hand I looked back on as a chance to get more chips.

I made it to day 2, but did so in a bitch way. With like 30 minutes left in the day, I get QQ in the c/o. Solid vegas pro (unknown to me) opens to 1100 (blinds 250/500/50). Comes to me in c/o (I have 15k w/ QQ) and I 3bet to 2900, folds around to Vegus guy who jams (he had 20k to start, puts me all-in). I go in the tank and FOLD 🙁

First off, KB, RFB, Ttwist, Wein, BigDog, don't cancel my membership. This was my first MAIN event. I've played in close to 125 WSOP/WPT/Borgata events over the last 5 years and won some money doing so. I wasn't intimidated by anyone or worried about being outplayed, just didn't want to come off as a donk, so I was much tighter then normal. I played ok and was kinda happy and really wanted a fresh start at a new table the following day. That being said, YES, I was results oriented.

Now the following day, I showed up refreshed with 10k got it up to 35k by the 2nd level of the day and got blasted by a 2 outter to go busto (But got all my chips in good in the lead with him needing 1 or 2, he rivered it). Overall, great time playing in this (will be my calender every year). I did play tight, I needed to build pots much more then a did.

I hate to say learning experience, but I took a 3rd (small tourney) a few days before the main to give me most of my buy-in. lol FREEROLL, but I was already going to put my own money in there and play, lol.

Thanks for everyones thoughts.

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October 9, 2011 - 11:48 pm

Vegas guy who jammed at AK.

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October 12, 2011 - 4:16 am

i dont see how you can fold queens there with 30 bigs..especially against a player that you know is capable of shoving worst pairs, ak and aq..you have to set up a play for the hand before you do it…you have to tell yourself, am i going to fold to a 4 bet shove BEFORE you decide to 3 bet…and if you are…then dont 3 bet

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