First a word about AQ. While it is rated among the top 10 hands in poker, I am getting completely wamboozled by it, no matter if I have it or am against it. Some recent examples for your edification:
Friday tournament: Called an all in (had him double covered) with my AQ vs. 10/10. His tens held up. Later in the same tournament, the same player raises with 10/10 and I call all-in (he now has me covered) with AQ suited. Player down.
Sunday tournament: My last hand, shove with AQ suited, called by QQ. Player down.
Monday tournament: I shove with KK, called by AQ. He hits his ace on the river, player down.
May I just make one short comment? WTF? Can't win with it and can't win against it.
Additional comments about the big tournament on Sunday. With blinds at 25/50 I raise preflop with J/J. I am called in several places. Flop is J/2/4 with 2 clubs (the 2 and 4). I bet 1000 (pot is approximately 800), and am called in one position. Turn is a king offsuite and I go all-in, having the caller covered by over 2000 chips. He calls and turns over the 3/5 of clubs for the open ended straight flush draw. River? No problemo, the 6 of clubs gives him the stone cold nuts.
May I just make one short comment? WTF? Can't people lay down a draw, even for all their chips?
I had some discussion with a fairly educated player about the hand, and he said we were a coin flip on the flop. Wrong. I ran it through my poker calculator and I was a 60/40 favorite. On the turn, it was even better for me, 70/30. This expert claimed 17 outs twice, but he forgot that I chew up a few of them with my full house draw. My outs to improve are J of clubs, 3-2's, 3-4's and on the turn, whatever hit (king of hearts I think) 3 of those. So, his king of clubs is gone, as well as the jack of clubs, leaving him 4-A's, 4-6's, 7,8,9,10,Q, and K of clubs. 14 outs on the turn.
We then proceeded to discuss the wisdom of putting all your chips in on a big draw vs. a made hand. I choose to believe that given a choice I would like to be the one with the made hand, regardless of outs.
2 comments:
Here is my mistake in the Sunday tournament. I failed to control the pot size properly. If I had kept it smaller then I could have gotten away cheaper.
That's true. There are certain hands that just tend to hate me. I don't know why. They are 8-8, which always seems to hit a set when I have aces; 10-10 which I can't win with and always get beat by, like your A-Q; and A-K which is a piece of crap. Personally A-Q treats me better. Sorry about that. I agree with you completely - WTF!
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