Winstar $2/$5 NL, 8-handed:
This is my first round of play at the table, so I don't have much information about my opponents to work with. (Noonan, you know this already...) I have AJ in the cutoff and there are two limpers to me. With roughly $525 in my stack, I make it $25 to go, button calls, BB calls, UTG calls, then UTG +2 repops it $30 more. I call, as does everyone else, so we go 5 to the flop. Flop comes A-J-6 two diamonds. It checks to the original raiser who bets $25. I make it $80 to go and it folds to the UTG player, who smooth calls (flush draw), but then the original raiser/bettor reraises $100 more. I think for about a minute, then muck...
Laydown of the century/easy fold or DONK play??? :)
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Every bit of information you have is screaming that this guy has a monster (ACES). There are really three scenarios that I can make of this situation. 1) He has aces and played them like most people try to where they act tricky but really just give away that they have a monster. 2) He's a complete donk and thinks his AK is good, so he's playing it like the nuts. 3) He's a good player who limped in with KK maybe QQ and doesn't think that you can call a reraise here after the preflop action.
Since you just sat down, #3 doesn't seem very likely and would be a pretty crazy play on his part. Good laydown here, if he's that bad and would play AK like that then you'll get him later on in the session but based on the action I would say he has to have AA or hit a set (maybe JJ?).
I folded and the guy ended up showing aces....easy fold in retrospect but in the moment it seemed like such a hard play. I kept thinking to myself immediately after folding that I made a mistake by folding, he has to have AK or some other hand I was beating. This brings up the importance of being able to take yourself away from the hand at the moment and try to observe it from a neutral prospective in order to determine the correct play. Ypur emotions get highly involved during the game...
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