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Hand replay - AK (-$54.25)
I was browsing through my Poker Tracker statistics and realized that the KQo hand posted earlier wasn't the hand that lost me the most at once. It was actually this hand.. AK. I think I overplayed them badly, and from then on I started listening to the advice of not overplaying the AK. I honestly believe it is a good advice, and even more so in a cash game. I would say that it is crucial for a cash game that you don't overplay the AK since it can be very very costly. In a tournament, when you have an AK it is usually a 50-50 shot and depending on stack sizes and position you can use this card to your advantage most of the time. Although, I read somewhere and I agree with the assessment made there - AK is a card to go all-in with, but it is not a card to call an all-in with.
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Anyway, let's go to the hand I was almost embarrassed to post. Still, I believe that posting hands here really helps me because of the big impact the revelations of a bad plays have on me. Mind you, hands posted here are not hands that I played yesterday or today, in fact, they are not bound by time in any way, so you won't be really able to tell did my game improve or deteriorate over time. This is just a hand analysis that I hope will help me, and anyone who reads it..
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This hand was played at $50 NL Full Ring table (blinds $0.25/$0.50) at Party Poker. Actually, you will probably notice that I was on tilt this hand because the one where I lost most previously (the hand with KQ and Pulda8 as my opponent) was played just few shuffles before this one I believe.
I was on the button when I received 
with $71.70 in front of me. Everybody folded (including microfish4 and Pulda8) to the 3rd player off the button (hoas777) who raised to $2.50. I re-raised from the button to $4.50 and both blinds folded and hoas777 called. There was now $9.75 in the pot and hoas777 had $49.75 left. The flop came 
giving me nothing but 2 overcards and position on hoas777. From what my Poker Tracker was telling me, hoas777 was a Tight-Aggressive/Aggressive player. I should have been skeptical. Hoas777 checked and I bet out $7, which he flat called. At this point I was thinking that he doesn't have anything like a pair in his hand and I put him on AQ. Pot was now $23.75 and 
came on turn. Now, hoas777 checks again and I bet $14. Hoas777 raised me to his all-in, $42.75. That was another $28 for me to call, and being already in the pot with about the same amount and putting hoas777 on AQ I decided to call (don't forget the tilt factor). River came 
which was a scary card after our pot commitment since now there was a pretty possible straight on board. I know that for a moment I thought that hoas777 is holding 77 in his hands and has now a straight. Anyway, my read on the guy was wrong. He was actually holding 
and took the pot of $106.25 and telling me that I am stupid for calling his raise on turn with nothing. Well, I would agree with him if I would have put him on KK or AA, but I didn't. Instead, I was thinking that he has either AK, AQ or even AJ and is trying to bully me out of the pot with that raise. Possible comments please.....
Post je objavljen 28.02.2007. u 14:47 sati.