yah i considered re-raising the flop, but thought about doing it on the turn…

Awesome job on the ticket. From the play in his limp and call to your 2.5 x bet tells me he has a strong hand whic is great for you with the AA. The flop came and his bet is first and it screams a high pocket premium tt, JJ, QQ, KK. Could be on a draw but with the pot sized bet. It screams a jam on the turn and get it in. You most likely have the check. Don’t let him have other streets.

Anywho. I guess it’s a non issue for your rest of play was irrelevant. Good job shipping an Aussie.

The villain's line kind of confuses me here. It is possible that he has an overpair but I don't know that he would play it so passively preflop (limp/call) and then so aggressively postflop. Limp/calling 33, 77 or 88 is pretty face up preflop but I think this is possible with a tricky donk lead on the flop, although I would still be surprised with a pot size lead here. I think a hand like 9Tss or similar is a plausible hand where he flops a combo draw and then value bets the turn when he hits. So, as played I think we are often behind by the turn and so a fold is best. I think I would probably just raise and get it in on the flop, then lose on the turn card and wonder why I just put most of my br on a satellite.

Congratulations on the win by the way, awesome result and good luck in the Aussie Million!

Kingoflimbs1 – nice username dude, also a big fan 

kingoflimbs1 said:

 i can only dream of playing $500 tourneys at the minute!

The sats to this event were 3steps… got through on a $1 rebuy the feilds were so easy, that a group of us were making money just playing these steps over and over for 2mths.

Bytie_nl said:

 

Quite a lot of players like to donkbet a pre raiser a lot n this kinda flop which makes it airballing a lot for me… 3bShove him!!

You did not tell us anything on his style : what was his vpip, pfr and steal%? This would add some good info.

Yah I agreee with the shove, I had no information on the guy pretty sure it was his first or second hand at the table, he might be from my home town. If I limp call with low/mid pockets, I love donkbetting into a preflop aggressor if I hit my set (think this why a took a more cautious approach)

ttwist said:

to often they have 99-JJ and play it just he same andoften they do this when they pick up the spade draw to try to get you to fold so i dont fold aces in this spot. i also dont play thinking my aces have been cracked by a set and if your worried abou the flush draw then raise the flop and get rid of the guess work.

I know what you mean ttwist, his position suggested to me if he did have 99-jj pre-flop he would have raised, to me it just spelt suited connectors, I agree that I should have re-raised on the flop but I doubt he would have folded if he was on a flush draw, I think if the turn didn't give put another spade on the board, i would have been more than likely to shove it all in (definately if I had the As). – The villian was out a short time later, which gives me a strong indication that he was chasing based on how quickly he lost his stack.