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    Default New player w/question on AA hand

    I'll try to keep this short. I am brand new to poker in general. I've only got about 500 (online) hands or so under my belt at this point and I been mostly reading and going over those ~500 games (which I've logged with Poker Office). There's so much information to take in and hard to get a handle on it.

    In any even this one hand particularly pains me as it the first time (and only time so far) that I've gotten poket aces. I do know (even though I'm new) that hands like these lose all the time . What I'd like is an opinion on how I played it and if you think I was just muscled out, or should have made the call (I started thinking he had a set of Jacks when he bet on the turn). He didn't seem to be a particularly loose player to me prior to this point (but being new myself, my reads on player is somewhat inexperienced).


    ***** Hand History for Game 2923445821 *****
    $25 NL Texas Holdem - Friday, February 17, 03:14:48 EDT 2006
    Table Table 54863 (No DP) (Real Money)
    Seat 1 is the button
    Total number of players : 10
    Seat 1: WeirdPete12 ( $21.30 )
    Seat 2: rookie16 ( $16.45 )
    Seat 3: IveySpecial ( $30.20 )
    Seat 4: jmillerdls9 ( $24.10 )
    Seat 6: navychip777 ( $29.85 )
    Seat 9: h9meowcat ( $13.75 )
    Seat 5: Garyc82 ( $24.15 )
    Seat 8: borgen777 ( $24.15 )
    Seat 10: C0nqvist ( $25.55 )
    Seat 7: hkulmala ( $19.48 )
    rookie16 posts small blind [$0.10].
    IveySpecial posts big blind [$0.25].
    ** Dealing down cards **
    Dealt to Garyc82 [ Ac Ah ]
    jmillerdls9 folds.
    Garyc82 raises [$0.50].
    navychip777 folds.
    hkulmala calls [$0.50].
    borgen777 folds.
    h9meowcat folds.
    C0nqvist raises [$2].
    WeirdPete12 folds.
    rookie16 folds.
    IveySpecial folds.
    Garyc82 calls [$1.50].
    hkulmala folds.
    ** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, 6d, 3s ]
    Garyc82 bets [$1].
    C0nqvist raises [$4].
    Garyc82 calls [$3].
    ** Dealing Turn ** [ Th ]
    Garyc82 checks.
    C0nqvist bets [$5].
    Garyc82 folds.
    C0nqvist does not show cards.
    C0nqvist wins $17.25
    Game #2923446253 starts.
    #Game No : 2923446253
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    Play aces with real agression.

    First of all, get that silly preflop min-raise out of your arsenal. A $1 opener at these stakes is usually good. Other posters may tell you to jack it up more, but I personally wouldn't unless the game was really out of control. Then you get 3-bet at again, you won't have position post-flop, and you don't close the action. Put in another large raise, effectively committing you to go all the way.

    Post-flop, I really can't see myself laying down my hand here.. what makes you think villain has JJJ? IMO QQ-KK really fit the bill well here. Just figure out a way to get all the money in the pot and I think you are good here more times than not in this game...
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    Exactly what lukie said, raise 4xbb preflop, and post-flop there's really no reason to put him on jacks. kk/qq/aks/aqs/aj are all possible here in 25nl.
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    I play Aces 2 ways....

    Fast and faster.
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    O.K. Thanks for the feedback! I'd like to clarify this:

    Then you get 3-bet at again, you won't have position post-flop, and you don't close the action. Put in another large raise, effectively committing you to go all the way.
    I'm not sure I understand what you mean by getting 3-bet and not having position?

    Thanks!
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    Getting 3 bet = getting reraised preflop/postflop.

    Not having position means that your opponent acts after you.
  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by Lukie
    IMO QQ-KK really fit the bill well here.
    These are microstakes. His opponent could have as little as J-7 offsuit.
  8. #8
    Quote Originally Posted by midas06
    Getting 3 bet = getting reraised preflop/postflop.

    Not having position means that your opponent acts after you.
    O.K. - got it. Thanks. At first I was thinking the statment meant that getting 3bet influenced my "not having position". I just got mixed up.

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