Folding Pocket Aces

Villain(HJ) is loose passive. 21/2/1 over a ~450 hand sample size. He’s always really agressive on the river because he rarely continues without a hand. His WTSD is 18% with a 56% W@SD. But was still generally a losing player.

Villain2(UTG+1) is also loose passivish. 24/9/1 over a ~350 hand sample size. Does have a relatively high CBet%.

I had been pretty loose aggressive but I had been hitting a lot of hands.

Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold’em – 9 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

MP2: $9.53
CO: $2.00
BTN: $4.19
SB: $10.00
BB: $14.57
UTG: $5.31
UTG+1: $5.22
UTG+2: $7.96
Hero (MP1): $9.06

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is MP1 with K A
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $0.20, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.20, MP2 calls $0.20, 4 folds

I could have 3B here but since I was already playing aggressive, I thought I would try and just call here. With my aggressive image up to now, I think a 3B would only fold out too much where I would lose a bit of value at this point. But that brings horrible situations like being overcalled by the guy directly to your left.



Flop: ($0.67) 9 K 2 (3 players)
UTG+1 bets $0.45, Hero raises to $1.25, MP2 calls $1.25, UTG+1 calls $0.80

So I hit the flop well. There’s two flush cards out there so I’m planning to bet big to charge them because there’s lots of Axs in both their ranges. After villain 1 bets 2/3s I decide to pot it to try and put myself in a HU situation against him. I think QQ/JJ and KJ/KQ would call one off here. I’m not really impressed that both called of course.


Turn: ($4.42) 5 (3 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $2.40, MP2 raises to $8.08 all in, UTG+1 folds, Hero folds

Final Pot: $9.22
MP2 wins $8.77
(Rake: $0.45)

This is where I’m not too sure what’s my best like. I think check/fold is too weak. Bet/Fold seems to be a good line but if I bet 2/3pot, I’m putting over 50% of my stack in the pot. I decided to bet just over half pot but I think this makes my hand look like AQ / AJ ?? I dunno