Question: How would you play this poker hand? Playing $1/$2 No limit?

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Answer #1:

I would put the raiser on a flush draw, I don't see him making the $30 call with an 8 10 so I would probably come back over the top but at least call.

Answer #2:

Let me guess you got sucked out on?

As is there is a whole lot more to a hand than the action - stack sizes, your table image, your position, your perceived image, how others are playing etc etc.

Answer #3:

Call. If he flopped a set, oh well.

(Unless I have a reason to believe that he absolutely has to have a set there... )

Answer #4:

It all depends on the player. Do you think this player would shove his stack in on a draw. Many players will not do it. Judging by the oversized pre-flop raise of $15 and three callers it is obviously a loose game so going by that your aces should be ahead a good percentage of the time so calling looks like the correct play but it does depend on the player. So many differrent things affect poker decisions. Did this player just take a bad beat and is tilting? Did you just check-raise this player of a big pot recently tilting him. Go with what your gut says. There is no shame in folding aces on the flop. I have done it many times myself. The goal isn't to be correct everytime - just more times than not.

Answer #5:

A similar hand happened to me last time I went to the casino.

Your case: $60 in the pot after 3 people called the $15. $90 in the pot once you bet $30 on the flop. Assuming everyone else folded, there is now $220 in the pot once the other guy raises to $130.

So the pot has $220, and you need to call another $100. There are very few things that you're actually losing to at this point in time. It's very unlikely, (but not impossible), that the player called $15 with 10-8, so he probably doesn't have 2-pair. It IS possible for him to have pocket 10's or pocket 8's, and MAYBE pocket 3's.

A set is the only thing you're really worried about. But you need to call $100 to win the $220 that's in the pot, and the MORE LIKELY scenario is that this guy has a flush draw.

If I knew absolutely nothing about this player, I would say calling is the better move. That is the one piece of information that you left out, however. If this is a very tight player, and you know the only way he's going to put his money "all-in" is with a set, then you have to fold. Otherwise you really have to call.

If you DO call, and he is on a flush draw, then you can say to yourself, "I made the right play!" From there, you have to not care so much if he makes his hand or doesn't. That's the hard part about poker for so many people. You are NOT supposed to win every time you have pocket Aces! You WILL get sucked out on by inferior hands. That's just the way it goes.

With the size of the pot, and not knowing anything else about your opponent, I think you have to call. By the way - if he DOES have a set of 10's or a set of 8's, that's just bad luck. In my opinion, and in THIS scenario, you have to make the call.

Very briefly, here is MY situation. Similar to you, I raised pre-flop and then made a bet on the flop with pocket Aces. Different than your situation, though, was that I got FIVE callers, including a guy that raised before me in the pre-flop action. This guy was a TIGHT player. The flop came Q-J-6. I bet and he went all-in for another $300 to me! I would have had to call $300 more for a pot worth around $500. I knew I was beat, so I folded the Aces.

Different situations require different actions. You've got to make the right choices and not care about the consequences if you were right.

Answer #6:

Depends on the player but usually call. They could be doing the same thing with an overpair or a draw. It's not an insta-call though, you have to think about the fact that they didn't re-raise you preflop. That could easily mean 88 or 33, even the TT. Overpair probably would have re-raised you preflop.

Mathematically speaking, you'd be risking 100 to win 220, so you'd only need to win 31.25% of the time for the call to be worth it. So yeah, call unless you're somehow 70+ % sure you're beat, which I doubt you can be so sure in that situation.

@Btw thanks pdq! Been a long time since I blushed...lol

Answer #7:

you may be ahead here-- there is so much more to this than what is in print. If you are ahead its because he has a flush draw or had paired one of his hole cards on the flop now he is trying to make it too expensive to call. He is also unaware of the strength of your hand and hopes you dont call. On the flip side he could have been holding a flopped set which is 333, 888 , or 10 10 10 by having hit a card to go with his pocket pair but if he had he would be glad you were betting and allowed you to keep betting and then check raised you on the river if he still liked his set. Another possibility is two pair but not likely considering he had called a raised bet preflop. 3 8 , 8 10. and 10 3 are not common calling hands .. Were you heads up? If you were heads up any thing is possible. I cant tell you how i would play the hand unless i see the guys face in a b & m casino or his style and betting patterns online. I can only tell you what that hand makes me think-- hope this was insightful.

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