Big Laydown

Can't be anything else but AA or a real foolish bluff on KK or QQ. Still was tough to fold this one even though he gave away his hand in the chat at the end.

***** Hand History for Game 2460012354 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, August 01, 12:58:48 EDT 2005
Table Table 36720 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: AllInWit27 ( $51.50 )
Seat 6: litfpitr69 ( $113.61 )
Seat 5: holdthis82 ( $22.40 )
Seat 3: guinnie ( $8.48 )
Seat 4: clogreen1 ( $24.25 )
Seat 2: Kwove ( $15 )
AllInWit27 posts small blind [$0.10].
Kwove posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to AllInWit27 [ 9s 9h ]
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
guinnie folds.
clogreen1 folds.
holdthis82 folds.
litfpitr69 calls [$0.25].
AllInWit27 raises [$0.90].
>You have options at Table 36749 (6 max) Table!.
Kwove folds.
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
litfpitr69 raises [$4.75].
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
AllInWit27 calls [$4].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ah, 5c, 9d ]
litfpitr69: never
AllInWit27 checks.
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
litfpitr69 checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7s ]
AllInWit27 checks.
>You have options at Table 36749 (6 max) Table!.
>You have options at Table 36746 (6 max) Table!.
>You have options at Table 36746 (6 max) Table!.
litfpitr69 bets [$2].
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
>You have options at Table 36749 (6 max) Table!.
>You have options at Table 36746 (6 max) Table!.
AllInWit27 calls [$2].
** Dealing River ** [ Jh ]
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
>You have options at Table 36746 (6 max) Table!.
AllInWit27: you got me scared
AllInWit27 checks.
litfpitr69: u should be
>You have options at Table 54798 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
>You have options at Table 36749 (6 max) Table!.
litfpitr69 is all-In [$106.61]
litfpitr69: u should fold
litfpitr69: really
>You have options at Table 36746 (6 max) Table!.
AllInWit27: ok i believe you
AllInWit27: show it?
AllInWit27 folds.
litfpitr69 shows [ Ad, Ac ] three of a kind, aces.
litfpitr69 wins $120.16 from the main pot with three of a kind, aces.

Amazing laydown, i'd be losing pretty much every time there. A 90c pre-flop raise could have been AJ which would have got the same chat from him. Was he playing very tight or had u seen him play before to get reads? To my knowledge I've never laid down a set to a higher one, to flushes and straights sure.

I'm sorry but I could never make that laydown and I dont even know if thats a good idea at 25 NL. People play so erraticaly that half the time they reraise with less than premium hands. I think laying down sets in 6-max is just bad business, I'd only consider it in 10-max.

Also, dont call a 16x BB reraise with 99, your probably behind when he reraises there.

Preflop I put him on AA or KK and was just calling to hit my set. I just didn't see how I could call at the end with the preflop action, his huge overbet all-in, and his "I have a huge hand, please call" messages in the chat. I mean, besides a huge bluff for the hell of it, what can he have here except AA?

Here's another big laydown I made today. Not sure if this one was correct. He either has a flush draw or a set here to smooth call then go AI over the top of a reraise. I thought a set was more likely so I laid down my top two. Right move or too tight?

***** Hand History for Game 2460557757 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, August 01, 15:32:40 EDT 2005
Table Table 54788 (6 max) (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 1: lucha68 ( $16.80 )
Seat 3: daddymac1978 ( $39.45 )
Seat 5: PROPINFO ( $29.85 )
Seat 6: AllInWit27 ( $124.05 )
AllInWit27 posts small blind [$0.10].
>You have options at Table 36634 (6 max) Table!.
lucha68 posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to AllInWit27 [ 8d Qc ]
daddymac1978 folds.
>You have options at Table 36693 (6 max) Table!.
PROPINFO calls [$0.25].
AllInWit27 calls [$0.15].
lucha68 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3h, Qh, 8c ]
AllInWit27 checks.
>You have options at Table 36693 (6 max) Table!.
>You have options at Table 36693 (6 max) Table!.
jackw144 has joined the table.
>You have options at Table 36693 (6 max) Table!.
lucha68 bets [$2].
>You have options at Table 36693 (6 max) Table!.
>You have options at Table 36634 (6 max) Table!.
PROPINFO calls [$2].
>You have options at Table 54808 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
AllInWit27 raises [$6].
>You have options at Table 36693 (6 max) Table!.
>You have options at Table 54808 (6 max) (No DP) Table!.
lucha68 calls [$4].
PROPINFO is all-In [$27.60]
>You have options at Table 36693 (6 max) Table!.
AllInWit27: giving you a lot of credit
AllInWit27 folds.
>You have options at Table 36693 (6 max) Table!.
lucha68 folds.
PROPINFO does not show cards.
PROPINFO wins $41.45

After looking at that second hand, i think your playing way too weak. I wouldnt be suprised if he just had a Q, maybe bottom two. Normally its a bad idea to fold top two in 6-max, espicially in 25$ 6-max.

I'd start calling down a lot more of these. Sometimes you gotta pay people off, but most of the time you're ahead.

Edit: Also, delete those "You have options at table X" messages from your hand histories. They make it really hard to read lol

Point taken, though I don't think I'm playing too weak at all. Tilting too much definitely, bluffing too much quite possibly, but making too many big laydowns I don't think so. I will never lay down top-two or better on a non-dangerous board unless I have a strong read that I'm beat like I did in the two hands posted.

In the second hand I think I actually might have been ahead since he told me later he had a set of queens (which I assume was a lie). I still think I made a pretty good laydown there given the action, and I don't think he had anything else but a flush draw or a set, and like I said, I think the set was more likely. Then again maybe I'm just not used to playing NL25, though he didn't seem to be one of the NL25 goofballs who would play just a queen like this.