AA btn vs mp

Originally posted by SuperChompa
cooler or bad play?

Imo both. When he flats from MP he probably should have some high AX hands and pockets maybe 88-QQ?
You hold A♠: so you block pretty much all of standard flatting ranges flush draws.
This flop is often total brick for him. You could check here, but betting and hoping he calls with pockets is ok too, but I would choose a smaller bet size.
OTT depending on his range the best hand he might have is QQ. I wouldn't shove. Another small bet would be fine.

Lately I experienced doing some overbets like that and that's funny because people do a lot of weird things. Some similar spot I got called by 88.

If you find it working, then you can of course do that.
Ppl will of course do stupid things from time to time. But as you see, this time it didn't work. So the question is whether they do stupid stuff often enough for you to make profit on the long run with this move, and if this move is the max EV line.

I guess you are right. Bet 75% might be better.
For him best line would be call turn and donk river, given that I should call river. That would for sure have spared me a few BB.

Well looking at the numbers again I might stack off anyways.

Yes you are probably stacking off here but the point is to keep villains range wider. If you shove OTT he should be able to fold QQ but if you bet half pot he might call and feel committed to call river too.

Originally posted by la55i

Originally posted by SuperChompa
cooler or bad play?

Imo both. When he flats from MP he probably should have some high AX hands and pockets maybe 88-QQ?
You hold A♠: so you block pretty much all of standard flatting ranges flush draws.
This flop is often total brick for him. You could check here, but betting and hoping he calls with pockets is ok too, but I would choose a smaller bet size.
OTT depending on his range the best hand he might have is QQ. I wouldn't shove. Another small bet would be fine.

I agree with that. Plus board is not good for such move. There are too many better possibilities.

Originally posted by SuperChompa
Well looking at the numbers again I might stack off anyways.

I understand that you feel awkward playing an overpair postflop but shoving is not only option. Straight, flush and FH possible. Our hand is for small pot.

I probably have overplayed the hand because I was running cold for a while and got annoyed.

This is an issue that you have to work on.

If we play turn like this I can´t imagine actually taking the pot if we get called. I´d bet 1/2 OTT or check back OTT and then call/bet OTR.