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I was a playing a cash game yesterday at a local casino and got stuck in a hand. Was hoping on some advice to see if i played this one wrong.

Blinds were £1 - £1

I was 2nd to act - First player who i know and i know his range which is pretty big - raised to £4. I had KK and as this was the first hand and thinking a slow play with his big range might be an advantage just called the raise. Everyone else folded except for the last play who did re-raise. He 4x the bet to £16. The initial raiser then shoved for £50.

The player shoving could of had anything really so i wasnt overly concerned with his bet. Though i had never played with the other guy and something told me he had AA. It took me a while but even though my head was telling me he had AA i thought he could of been on QQ or JJ. In the end i thought folding KK was to tight in the spot i was in. So i shoved all in which was for £100. He ofc called and turned over AA. What made this worse was the initial raiser also had KK so i was only drawing to a straight and a flush.

Should i of folded KK? If i just called it was probably going in on the river anyway. But that lay down just seemed to big or was it just one of those hands that just doesnt go your way.


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la55i
Joined: 27.01.2013

Hi Hayter,

Welcome to PokerStrategy :welcome:

I'm not very familiar with live poker but I would say that slowplaying KK like that is almost always bad. Otherwise your hand sounds very standard. Folding KK there would be bad in my opinion. Those guys can have smaller pocket pairs and big aces.


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Yeah i agree slow playing probably wasn't the best first choice. He can be a ver aggressive player so i didnt want to look too strong and scare him off. Though if the Ace did flop i would of been in a sticky situation.

Though i think the money was always going to be getting in on that one.

Thats exactly what i thought. More often or not they are going to playing a small PP or a high A. Just a bit of stinger.

PP's were not my friend yesterday.


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YohanN7
Joined: 15.06.2009

You can exceptionally slowplay this way (say 5-10% of the time or whatever), but having engineered the situation and then fold would be brain-dead.

This is precisely what you'd want with the play, right? Trick someone to squeeze and then capture both the loosy-woosy player (who had only £50) and the squeezer on the button (who could have anything, really) with their fingers in the jar. Super-trivial shove unless you have a read that the button craps in his pants every time with AA and the room smells real bad (or are significantly deeper than £100).


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