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[Don Giovanni]

im playing in a 25-50 cent no limit holdem home game. very loose table lots of action on every hand so its more like a 50-1 game. lots of bad players and a few good players. i get pocket aces in the big blind. im up about $50 on top of my $20 buy in.first to act raises $2 on top of the blind, not a big raise.to my suprise it gets around to me without any callers. i reraise $5.the guy who raised looks a little worried, sits there and thinks for a few seconds. i hadnt ever played with him before so i really didnt have much of a read on him. he calls and the flop is 7c 4c 9c. i have the ace of clubsim first to act and i throw out $10 hoping to take it down, or at least see where im at.he reraises all in for $24 on top of the $10. What would you do?

[SQUIRRELBONE]

There's almost $60 in the pot at this point right? Costs $24 to call. I call with the big over pair and nut flush draw.

[pokerplayer75]

call

[UglyJimStudly]

Don Giovanni said:

the guy who raised looks a little worried, sits there and thinks for a few seconds. i hadnt ever played with him before so i really didnt have much of a read on him.

Working off the fundamental theory of tells (that acting weak means the player's hand is strong, and vice versa), I'd give him credit for a pretty big hand - decent pair or ace-face.

Don Giovanni said:

he calls and the flop is 7c 4c 9c. i have the ace of clubsim first to act and i throw out $10 hoping to take it down, or at least see where im at.he reraises all in for $24 on top of the $10. What would you do?

Given the hand I'm giving him credit for pre-flop, the flop almost certainly mostly missed him unless he had pocket nines. Maybe he has pocket kings and one is the king of clubs, maybe he's just bluffing the scare flop. In any case, I'd say there's a pretty good chance that you've got both the best hand and the best draw. Add in that the pot odds support a call even if he's ahead (with trips, or the less likely flush), and it seems like you've got a pretty clear call.

[AKQJ2o]

If I've got pocket Aces and four out of five cards to the nut flush and anybody moves all-in on me I'm calling! Everytime, without question.Over the long haul that has to be a money making proposition. I'd be thrilled if I was guaranteed to get into that situation at least once whenever I sat down at a poker game. (I fact I'd probably be jumping from one table to another just to see it more often.)

[Don Giovanni]

ah, i did call and he had pocket 4s. trips. a 9 came on the turn giving him the boat and i missed the few outs i had left. i was wondering if i should have checked the flop so i wasnt as pot commited but it wouldve been hard to fold my hand.

[J-Dub]

Checking would only make you more likely to call since he'd still probably had done the same thing, and you'd have even less of a read on the player. Trips were the first thing that came to my mind, but then again they usually are. In that situation I think you definitely need to represent the aces.

[Leedspokerguru]

I wasn't a fan of your raise pre flop if you had a small kicker(AK or AQ only acceptable) but once you did you were in on the hand after that flop. Easy call though on the flop with that much money and the nut flush draw you have to call.

[dominiksdad]

Leedspokerguru said:

I wasn't a fan of your raise pre flop if you had a small kicker(AK or AQ only acceptable)

I think you might have misread something here!?He had an Ace with an Ace kicker - if that isn't good enough for a pre-flop raise I don't know what is!

[Leedspokerguru]

lmao . Derrr. Yeah just re read it. Thought he just said he had A clubs when flop came. Not enogh coffee this morning damit!! Nowt wrong with that play. Just one of those things.