Aces UTG

Hello everyone,
Could anyone please tell me what the correct play is in the following situation? Any feedback greatly appreciated 😊

So this happened to me in my “home game” which for this instance we might as well call it a single table tournament.

Blinds: 2500/5000 (no ante)
Stacks: 125,000 (me) - 115,000 (opponent)

I am UTG and dealt A♠️ A♣️ I opened the betting and bet 12,000
Everyone folds around to the BB who calls.
Flop: K❤️ 6♠️ 2♦️

Opponent checks, I C-bet 15,000
Opponent raises to 50,000

Having played against this opponent on many occasions I strongly suspect he would’ve slow played any sets/2 pair holdings so the 50K raise suggested to me he had a hand like AK / KQ
Was I right to just move all in here and play for stacks?

Note: not to be results oriented here but I was correct and my opponent was holding KQo and actually hit his Q on the turn to eliminate me. I know I got it in good but is there a way I should be trying to slow the play down here or are the stacks just too short?

Let me know your opinions guys and thanks in advance 👍

In my experience, depending on your opponent you should polarized that hand to go all in or fold, for example if you are playing against a maniac and you have a history playing with him, and you are almost sure that he is able to call your all in with hands like KT+ ALL in is the best option. If you are playing against a Rock who only 3bet with premium, you should fold.!! In my experience in that situation that is the best line

I don't see how you're getting away from AA on that flop. That would be a hard laydown. Good shove with under 16bb. I might have shoved pre-flop. I would have certainly raised a bit more preflop like 15,000. That sets up a flop shove. Either way all the chips went in, you were the favorite when they did.

Good read on villain btw...


Cheers!!!

For 23BB its very standard to get it in on the flop with a good top pair or an overpair. Its also great to have AA here rather than AK, because then you dont block him from having top pair, and you have more equity against two pair.

Preflop All in or call, do not raise! After seeing the preflop with K Q, it's hard to stop it and it goes all the time! Test on the preflop his hand with a small bet and see how he responds. If he raises then you can analyze his hand as being KK, Kx or KD, KJ. The Turn is eloquent so it is good to fold if you give it all in!

Dumps55 said:

Hello everyone,
Could anyone please tell me what the correct play is in the following situation? Any feedback greatly appreciated 😊

So this happened to me in my “home game” which for this instance we might as well call it a single table tournament.

Blinds: 2500/5000 (no ante)
Stacks: 125,000 (me) - 115,000 (opponent)

I am UTG and dealt A♠️ A♣️ I opened the betting and bet 12,000
Everyone folds around to the BB who calls.
Flop: K❤️ 6♠️ 2♦️

Opponent checks, I C-bet 15,000
Opponent raises to 50,000

Having played against this opponent on many occasions I strongly suspect he would’ve slow played any sets/2 pair holdings so the 50K raise suggested to me he had a hand like AK / KQ
Was I right to just move all in here and play for stacks?

Note: not to be results oriented here but I was correct and my opponent was holding KQo and actually hit his Q on the turn to eliminate me. I know I got it in good but is there a way I should be trying to slow the play down here or are the stacks just too short?

Let me know your opinions guys and thanks in advance 👍

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There is no clear action for you that would be better than the action you took---good job reflecting to be sure your action was correct but no nothing you could do better.

Dumps55 said:

Hello everyone,
Could anyone please tell me what the correct play is in the following situation? Any feedback greatly appreciated 😊

So this happened to me in my “home game” which for this instance we might as well call it a single table tournament.

Blinds: 2500/5000 (no ante)
Stacks: 125,000 (me) - 115,000 (opponent)

I am UTG and dealt A♠️ A♣️ I opened the betting and bet 12,000
Everyone folds around to the BB who calls.
Flop: K❤️ 6♠️ 2♦️

Opponent checks, I C-bet 15,000
Opponent raises to 50,000

Having played against this opponent on many occasions I strongly suspect he would’ve slow played any sets/2 pair holdings so the 50K raise suggested to me he had a hand like AK / KQ
Was I right to just move all in here and play for stacks?

Note: not to be results oriented here but I was correct and my opponent was holding KQo and actually hit his Q on the turn to eliminate me. I know I got it in good but is there a way I should be trying to slow the play down here or are the stacks just too short?

Let me know your opinions guys and thanks in advance 👍

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im not a pro but i like the way you played it good read on villain aswell

Dumps55 said:

Hello everyone,
Could anyone please tell me what the correct play is in the following situation? Any feedback greatly appreciated 😊

So this happened to me in my “home game” which for this instance we might as well call it a single table tournament.

Blinds: 2500/5000 (no ante)
Stacks: 125,000 (me) - 115,000 (opponent)

I am UTG and dealt A♠️ A♣️ I opened the betting and bet 12,000
Everyone folds around to the BB who calls.
Flop: K❤️ 6♠️ 2♦️

Opponent checks, I C-bet 15,000
Opponent raises to 50,000

Having played against this opponent on many occasions I strongly suspect he would’ve slow played any sets/2 pair holdings so the 50K raise suggested to me he had a hand like AK / KQ
Was I right to just move all in here and play for stacks?

Note: not to be results oriented here but I was correct and my opponent was holding KQo and actually hit his Q on the turn to eliminate me. I know I got it in good but is there a way I should be trying to slow the play down here or are the stacks just too short?

Let me know your opinions guys and thanks in advance 👍

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It's a call.

a) unless you are playing against a ceritfied nit (which can be, if they slowplay sets and two-pairs constantly), you will be heavily overfolding if you will fold top overpair on this extremely dry flop.
b) sets will be much rarer that two-pairs or even TPGK (aka KQo or KQs). If it is indeed set, you are basically done for (but sets are just 9 combos, and this implies that they blundered and did not 3-bet KK preflop), if not, there are three scenarios:
* They will have KQ, KJ or even AK (the later is doubtful but still possible, you hold 2 aces, not 4). In this case you are most likely going to get free money, and there will be more of those scenarios, as there are less combos for two-pairs than for TPGK, especially as defending 62o is weird
* They will have two pair and a possibility to get counterfitted on later streets (~6% on the turn and ~12% on the river, both independently, so around 15%-ish chance in total, added up with a tiny chance for you to hit top set will make somewhere 20% for you to be saved)
* They just bluffed you with a gutshot+backdoor flush draw. I kinda don't see any other potential check-raise bluffs to pull off here.
* Fourth scenario that exists but it is comically unlikely, is that your opponents will flip aces and you both shake hands and split the blinds

Easy shove tbh