AJ over board

[zarry]

PokerStars Game #3325478009: Tournament #16469985, Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2005/12/13 - 19:19:57 (ET)
Table '16469985 2' Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: andres01 (1660 in chips)
Seat 2: zarryL (3150 in chips)
Seat 3: flipmode771 (7475 in chips)
Seat 4: kobejames (3175 in chips)
Seat 5: UFFDA 55 (3090 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 7: 101er (3735 in chips)
Seat 9: msbubbies (4715 in chips)
andres01: posts small blind 100
zarryL: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to zarryL [Js Ac]
flipmode771: folds
kobejames: folds
UFFDA 55: folds
101er: calls 200
msbubbies: calls 200
andres01: calls 100
zarryL: raises 400 to 600
101er said, "glad you knew to check that down"
101er: calls 400
msbubbies: calls 400
andres01: folds
*** FLOP *** [3s 7d 9h]
101er said, "most players dont' get that"
zarryL: bets 2550 and is all-in


101er is a tight conservative player
bubbies is a little looser more my style of play loose aggro

Is there a way i should have played this differently? I put my money on both of them with overcards based on there play or even a low pair... With my all in move i represent a straight out bluff with high cards but i figured aj would be high enough... i know it wasnt the best all in ive made but eh...

any recomendations

[Aplomado]

This seems to me like an overly-risky way to play AJ. First of all, I don't see that big of a raise preflop with it when it's nearly a full table. Second, and with a smaller pot on the flop, I would put out a pot-sized bet to see where I stand.

If they're calling raises like that, they could have AQ, AK, or a bunch of pocket pairs. All of those beat you.

[lowBoy]

Tough one...

I would have raised more preflop with two limpers and a completed SB.

I'm on the fence about the push - you're basically just hoping that they're going to lay down a slowplayed AK-AJ and that they don't have a PP higher than the board.

[Aplomado]

I'm on the fence about the push - you're basically just hoping that they're going to lay down a slowplayed AK-AJ and that they don't have a PP higher than the board.

Why would it have to be higher than the board?

[lowBoy]

I'm on the fence about the push - you're basically just hoping that they're going to lay down a slowplayed AK-AJ and that they don't have a PP higher than the board.

Why would it have to be higher than the board?

101er is a tight conservative player... usually they won't go to the felt with an underpair, just in case hero raised with A9.

bubbies as a fellow LAgg would call with an underpair.

[zarry]

well end of the story is bubbie played with q9 os suprisingly and hit his 9 and i didnt hit

[salsa4ever]

you could limp and fold to aggression and fold on the flop.
you could just push it all in with 15BB and a good hand in decent position.

Or you could raise to 600 as played and check the flop with 2 players and ace high. Given that you went all in on this hand I would advise you to either push or limp.

[Fortune 500]

Check Preflop. You're out of position with a good, but not great hand. Check... if you miss, no big thing... you get away cheap.

You were moderately unlucky to have a Q9 in the hand... and with the balls to call... but open pushing that flop is asking for trouble.

Check preflop. Fold postflop.

[zarry]

yea i figured

[Aplomado]

I agree with Fortune.