what do you make of this play?

[OldNo7]

NL Texas Hold'em $5 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:15813977 Level:7 Blinds(150/300) - Saturday, September 17, 08:46:44 EDT 2005
Table Table 35023 (real money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 1: go_ottawa67s ( $2695 )
Seat 2: monkeetoy ( $2895 )
Seat 3: Isak_isak ( $2410 )
Trny:15813977 Level:7
Blinds(150/300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to monkeetoy [ Ad Ac ]
Isak_isak raises [600].
go_ottawa67s folds.
monkeetoy calls [300].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2d, Qs, 5s ]
monkeetoy is all-In [2295]
Isak_isak folds.
monkeetoy does not show cards.
monkeetoy wins 3645 chips

I'm unsure on the best way to place Ace's and wonder what others thought of the play above?

Cheers,

Rob

 

[buckster436]

With only 3 players he could have slow played them AA`s, but then again almost everytime i slow play AA somebody catches something and i get beat, If he wanted to take down the pot rite there, he did it rite, As for me i usually go all-in with pocket AA and take my chances, a number of times i had a caller with pocket KK`s and he got the 3rd K to bust me. I think you made a good fold.
buckster436

 

[Dorkus Malorkus]

Push preflop.

Given that you didn't the push on the flop is fine. Checking to the other guy would be a little risky.

 

[xdmanx007]

Push preflop.

Given that you didn't the push on the flop is fine. Checking to the other guy would be a little risky.

Amen

 

[poettic1]

i personaly like the idea of letting mmy opponent trake control of the hand.the problem with this is you only have a pair of aces witch will win the pot about 32% of the time if it goes from preflop to river. but i'm big on max value not protection. and the max value play would let your oponent bet the hand.

the scenario you posted seems like your oponenet was on a steal, i might have reraised the minimum and hoped he let his pride get to him going all in. just me.

you played the hand fine. always be sure to ask the question, would you rather win the blinds with aces, or play them and loose your stack.

 

[F Paulsson]

Yeah, what they said. It sucks not getting paid enough for AA (no salary is high enough for AA!) but after the flop, without knowing anything about the other two guys and not knowing what kind of table image you had, pushing was right move.

A push pre-flop for me would greatly depend on what I knew about Isak_isak, though. At the late stages of a tourney, it's pretty imperative that you do get paid for good hands, in my opinion. My pre-flop reraise would be the sum I could count on him calling. When there's only three players left, I usually have a pretty decent idea of where that limit goes for the other two. Hell, some people take it personal when you reraise them, and will always push all-in - "don't think you can boss me around!". I love 'em.

i personaly like the idea of letting mmy opponent trake control of the hand.the problem with this is you only have a pair of aces witch will win the pot about 32% of the time if it goes from preflop to river. but i'm big on max value not protection. and the max value play would let your oponent bet the hand.

... 32% of the time against 9 other players. Only two people left here. His chances were in the vicinity of 80-90%.