Full Tilt Poker - The WRONG way to play AQ off

[itssimpleiwinyoulose]

Hum you should be suspicious when he calls the turn when ur giving such bad odds to chase a draw. More likely he already had a hand or he was on a complete float to bluff on the river but the last is probably too advanced for $1 SnG players lol

[the4minutemile]

You didn't know the players yet, which is fine. But you have to assume that when he calls your big bet on the turn he has a hand. You can rule out sets, because they would have raised, but you have to assume you're beat. The river was your fatal mistake. You were out of position, and an all in there is only getting called by a hand that beats you. I don't mind your play other than shoving the river. That's what killed you.

[Berar1]

bad luck, not bad play

[Zee96969696]

didn't play it that bad, that's the thing about poker, it is very difficult to know when you play well or when you're not playing well, because you're opponent could have anything. There was a time when every time I lost I thought I played bad, these days I tend to not care about losses, this is gambling, but you just try to have a little better odds than an average player you play against like a casino does

[superjeff14]

I think a big mistake was playing a big pot out of position. You kept saying you thought he was on a draw, and you could have been right. The problem is that because you have to act first, you cant really know if he made his hand or not. Its just very tough to gauge the strength of your opponents hand out of position, so generally avoid playing big pots there.

[MrJonnyboy36]

200 would have bn a better bet... punish drawss..

this isnt a bad play.. only ur out of position... and dont know much about ur opponentss... other than that its not a bad play just impatience...

Your mistake i guess is out of position.. dont know ur opponents.. and..

thats it.. bad luck really...

[Benne175]

No way I'd play so aggsessivly AQ off with a suited flop, but anyway..about if it's rigged... you stop and think for a while when you play other poker sites and notice that it's just not the same.. and is it strange that so many people feels the same way

[Lexington365]

I dont think this is a huge mistake. I think check call the river is the only thing I would do differently. Maybe control the sizeof the pot a little better in the earlier streets.

[MrJonnyboy36]

@Lexington365 Yes



[juuuhhh86]

i love you muppets commenting while all you do is play with play money or at your friends place. I think once you´ve started playing the AQ, it´s a 11 dollar SNG. I´dd play the AQ to the river no matter what. I just wouldn´t have been leading out all streaks, but if he goes all in, its a snap call.

[Cheshario]

i wouldve folded preflop, ur completely out of position

[GdogMr]

If that's what u consider a draw, Flopping the NUTS then OKAY!!!!!!!!!

[opaollie]

Rigged

[hubertandclyde]

@opaollie Fuck you troll.

[PersianTowTruckMan]

It wasn't really bad that you kept betting money... You just shouldn't have bet all of it.

[shamurevolt]

Beginners seem to get in a rut of treating a certain hand the same, no matter what the board looks like. They see top pair win so often, that they treat it as if it is invincible.

Remember, you had the second worst poker hand ahead of 'high card.' Even a donk making the call with 74o would have beat you.

[shamurevolt]

This has nothing to do with 'how to play' AQo. As others have said, the sin was not respecting the suited flop.

Top pair top kicker is a good hand most of the time, but everything should be based on the opponents' behavior because hand strength is relative.

[jojc10]

i love the big explantions, bottom line, stevie wonder saw that coming

[ml497]

really no reason to do anything on the river if your opponent missed his draw, if anything, you should have checked to him and let him try to bluff at it.

[hugeboofhead]

There was absolutely no point betting the river there

[kingcityguru]

His mistake was falling in love with top pair with a 3 card-flush board. Dude, did it not occur to you that he already hit a flush and that when another flush card did not hit on the turn or river that your opponent was sure you did not have a higher flush -- your betting on the river was moronic because even if he had 45h or something small for the flush he would have called, let alone with AK. Always ask, what would a guy with the nuts do... duh, he would have called your bets each time.

[TheCodemanShow]

ALSO...it was a good play by him on the turn just flat calling and a bad play by you betting on the end (Again, one pair is not a big enough hand to jeopardize your whole stack early). He made a good play in this hand because the circumstances and variables fell his way. But there were 3 hearts on the board, which you have to be thinking about, a player who just coldcalled 3 straight bets from behind and could have flopped a set or two pair too. Your hand was VERY weak actually in this situation

[TheCodemanShow]

Your play here was not bad because the guy had the nut flush or because you decided to bet your queen. Your bet preflop was debatably good. When someone bets that against me, I put them on about A10,AJ, or AQ or 66. Your real mistake in the hand is that you bet your entire stack with one pair. If you ever read Sklansky's "No Limit Holdem: Theory and Practice" it states big bets for big hands and small bets for small hands. Believe it or not, by his definition you had a small hand- one pair.

[OSHUNLIDE]

it wasnt really a bad play.... it just turned out he had you.

[ejlnicolas]

Ya that was donktastic play

[munkypup]

There is no right way to play any hand when you're on a rigged site.

[lillyi07]

You put this comment a long time ago but can I ask why you think that full tilt is rigged... I have the same feeling and recently stopped using it.

[kingcityguru]

It is not rigged.

I just won 81Gs this past Sunday and I am just a regular player like you. Things happen that go against you and you think it is rigged. Maybe you are not as good as you think you are and are putting yourself in positions where bad beats happen frequently.

[Minsheme]

@kingcityguru Yes it is. Everyone knows it's rigged, only it's rigged to deal bad-beats equally among the players. It's also rigged so that the good players win and the bad players lose, and to spot cheaters if they're winning too many pots.

[jesters22]

there's really hard to put your opponent on ace king of hearts since he didn't raise preflop, best range of hands to put him on are suited connectors. Either way you should of check on turn and call his bets, just gonna have to pay him off.

[ddimetrius]

turn check/fold =)

[PresidentBagel]

Right you are!