Argument hand

[aliensyndm]

Ok blinds at are the minimum , ie 10 and 20 I think. Most people are around their starting stack of 1500 I limp in with AJ, there's no pre-flop raises. There's a few other callers. Flop comes AJx with 2 hearts. The pot is 120 I think. I bet 110 at this pot(perhaps should have bet more), the guy to my left raises to 220. All folds round to me. OK so I scratch my heard. I think he's either drawing hearts or has an ace. I think with a set I would be flat called. Rightly or wrongly this was my reasoning. I raise all in for another 1250 or so. He calls, his entire stack. He turns over AKo. Of course the river is a king and I lose. People may say yeah but lucky flop etc, remember I put 20 in to see the flop when I was behind, and my entire stack in when I was ahead. I would argue that to commit your entire stack to such a small pot when there has been 5 people or so in the pot hence a good chance someone is beating you is a poor call. In the reverse position I would not have called an all in. Upon me commenting it was a bad call the player made the statements "look who won the pot?" and "there was a good chance a king would come out as everyone else had folded" I would say it's a classic example of falling in love with your pretty hand and not being able to get off it. Some people maybe able to see why it was called, it's a hard hand to get off AK when there is an ace out. I still maintain it was a dodgy call. I could also make the point, had the person being paying attention to the poker forum he would know I don't play rag aces so it's unlikely I would have had that, the only hand he is beating. Had I been playing a suited ace I would only have raised all in with 2 pair anyway. Had I a hand like AQ there's I would be wary of a raise and I wouldnt be committing my whole stack to it. Anyway that's my 2p worth. I do believe the entire table except one person said the AK call was the right play.

[mrmuzeman]

Re: Argument hand Is there actually an argument about this or just a discussion? Is it the 'look who won the pot' thing you are annoyed about?. If so I agree that is slightly annoying, If id have rivered the King I would have just said unlucky to the AJ player. And if I was Aliensyndm I would have probably just said nothing. If you are annoyed about the call Alien, I dont think you should be at all. Why would you not want someone to call you in this situation? Youd win about 80% of the time probably, which is a very nice position to be in.