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Message: [QUOTE="Four Dogs, post: 1111260, member: 2668"] In agreement with all above. Nobody played that hand well. This was a total disaster, but I think you already have a sense of this as you wouldn't be asking the question otherwise. All those silly min raises are superindicative of inexperienced low buy-in Hold'em. Aces are a great pre-flop hand but after the flop they become only a pair. First of all, you lose value by making small raises when it seems perfectly clear your opponents both would have called larger ones. Secondly, your reluctance to make a meaningful bet gave either of them the correct odds to call with virtually any 2 cards even if you had announced to the table your hand. Your initial reraise should have been more in the order of 2.5-3 times the original raise, say $180 making it about $270-$300 to go. When you were 4 bet (another silly min raise) you chose to dilly dally with another relatively small incremental raise insead of getting it all in PF where Aces have the most power. I would be very surprised if both of them had folded, but even if they had you would have won a pot worth about $750 increasing your chip stack by about 12% without having to see a flop. Never a bad thing, even with Aces. Then there's the flop. This was a tough board to be sure, but what reason could you possibly have for thinking that you were behind? Certainly not the solid preflop action. Hands like KK, KQ, QQ are real possibilities but I think you made this laydown more out of irrational fears of what they could have then any real read. Verses experts, AA is an easy fold vs heavy fop action, but in this situation vs I can see these jokers playing the flop the same way with AK, AQ or even A5s. As it turns out it was far worse than that. In fact, I would have expected hands like KK QQ to have shoved preflop. LIKE YOU SHOULD HAVE! [/QUOTE]

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