I have been talking to Leo recently and he advocates squeezing with hands like AJ and KQ to take down dead money and avoid having to take a flop out of position with them. Well, I squeezed here and totally whiffed the flop. Betting seems like the least bad of several bad options here so I fire and villain tank-calls. Turn gives me flush outs in addition to my A outs so I shove trying to fold his weak pairs but obviously he flopped a set. Seeya later, $112.
Ways I could could have played this differently:
- Flat pre?
- Fold pre?
- Bet smaller on the flop, which then allows me to bet/fold a non-spade non-ace turn and bet/shove a spade or ace turn?
- Check/fold flop?
- Check/fold turn?
- Bet/call turn?
- Bet/fold turn getting like 5:1?
- Quit poker forever?
I think I like #3 though #8 is a strong candidate.
This is just the most recent manifestation of a problem that's plagued me basically my entire poker life - not knowing what to do when I flop top pair and lead out and get raised. Back in old days I would just get it in but people always had a set. Then I switched to folding and people would always show that their flush draws and laugh in my face and needle me in chat. Then I switched to calling and never folding and people would always either have sets or get there with their draws. So here I try reraising and folding to a shove. But this also seems bad because it lets him shove with a balanced range of draws and stronger-than-top-pair made hands. Especially since this is blind vs. blind, he could easily have any two diamonds or AT or T8 or J9 or TT or 88. I have no idea how to weight these in his range or how to play optimally here.
NL100 Progress
-$77.65 / $1,000.00 after 2,892 hands
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