[Closed] An evaluation of a live hand I played

IMO you should raise/get it in on the flop you took a very passive postflop line with AA basically trying to bluffcatch him and allowing to get through 2 streets for a very low price 1/4 pot size bet on the flop and same amount of chips on the turn certainly a big river shove is a huge tell after those stabs, basically you got small balled :).

PS. making people show the hand which didn't reach the showdown is bad etiquete. ♠_mad:

Originally posted by Steelbrewer
IMO you should raise/get it in on the flop you took a very passive postflop line with AA basically trying to bluffcatch him and allowing to get through 2 streets for a very low price 1/4 pot size bet on the flop and same amount of chips on the turn certainly a big river shove is a huge tell after those stabs, basically you got small balled :).

PS. making people show the hand which didn't reach the showdown is bad etiquete. ♠_mad:

On almost every occasion I never let play get far without a price when I have pocket aces. This was a little different because I was playing with friends. The blind levels have no timing and it's more or less whenever people feel like bringing them up, which I hate. I'm the minority so my opinion is literally invalid.

I would have usually raised the flop but as it was blank I thought I could get him to bet in to it on the turn, which came a 9. This made me a little cautious but I know I should have raised the turn in order to see if he was holding anything better than I. It's a shame it was always going to come a 10 on the river. I know I played the hand below average but it's horrible knowing that it was always going to be the final outcome. I'm very sure in saying that he would have called if I went all in pre-flop and on any street.

There are no friends in poker...

Flop should be raise. In turn you should never raise if you think villain wont give action often enough with weaker hands. So don't turn hand into bluff to 'get info'.

Also try to not be results oriented. In this hand you might have lost with any line, but in the long run you obviously want to get chips in when ahead --> Decisions matter. Meaning even won pot can be badly played.

It's not bad etiquette to try get others to show their hand. Well maybe it depends on method... I might sometime think opponent might be bluffing, but cant really call. So I might say I folded some quite strong hand even if I only had high card or try and guess what villain had. Pretty many give some free info after my guess or they might be eager to show weaker hand than the hand I said I folded.

Hi all,

Raise to 180 preflop. As played raise the flop donkbet for value. As played the rest is fine.