Pocket Aces 3 Times! Playing With One $300 Buy-In - Vlog #4 Angry Monkey Poker

Playing a cash game $1/3 NL with just one $300 buy in. Actually went to the casino trying to make one buy in last. I played really well, caught some cards, but other than one hand I was not involved in, there was not much action this night.
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[@PAKALOLOBANDIT]

RIGHT. ON ANGRY MONKEY HOPE YOU REACH YOUR1000

[@AngryMonkeyPoker]

Awesome! Thanks so much. Appreciate it!

[@PAKALOLOBANDIT]

Your welcome my man

[@laurinestate7032]

Is Thunder and 1/3 your regular place to play? By the way I like how you show your hands even if you don’t connect on the flop.

[@AngryMonkeyPoker]

Yea. It’s my primary place. I also go to Capitol in Sacramento and a couple other places in SoCal. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it. 👍🏻

[@scottdumont7107]

My theory is you have the image of a tight player. When you went $38 pre to those lumpers and they all fold and your AA for the second time gets no action , and you get a snap fold on a small bluff that hits your range and finally on your third AA when you’re bled down to under $100 you get action. What I see if you’re missing out on some bluffs , your $15 standard polarizes opponents to mostly calls and few 3! , why not drop your open sizing and attack wider ? More smart bluffs and if you get caught adjust . As played you won’t win this way if it’s your objective with the rake. Your opponents seem to be playing a similar style. With some minor adjustments this could have easily been a double if not triple up day and if they all want to fold if they don’t hit flops that’s fine too . A5s, KQ now should be 3! Potentially if they are folding everything but KK plus . If they need to smash a flop put pressure on them till they get uncertain of your range. You biggest value here was bluffing more. The AK hand on 886 was an opportunity lost at likely $45 - $60. I think if you check raise this board on your image opponent puts you on AA plus and folds out everything but monsters after I watched later hands. Enjoy the journey and being open to alternative lines and never stop learning is the key. Good vlog

[@AngryMonkeyPoker]

That is some awesome advise and explanation. Thank you very much. Will take that into consideration. Thanks also for watching 👍🏻

[@scottdumont7107]

What to do with the AK hand who knows we have so little info on opponents. Stack sizes ? Aggression levels ? Are they sticky ? Do they bluff ? Heck is the flop suited ? Player types against you? Your image ? This is all good info but on what you gave us I will guess… IMO from the limited info 1)why $15 if you get 3! Here you likely are calling incorrectly and it doesn’t seem to weed the field. Either go smaller to allow yourself to 4! Ahead say $7 open or go larger $20-25 to limit the field. At smaller you can often “cooler” weak top pairs when you hit 2)as played to flop how would you play an overpair here ? Are you opponents sticky ? You are correct they miss most of this but with 3 callers it’s likely a hand like 55 or 99, straight draw (which you’re ahead of!) or air button has are betting to find out where they are at as he bet 1/4 pot into 3 checks that either are trapping an 8 or seem to hate this flop. I think you played the worst available line (check fold to a small button bet that can easily be a steal). Why not lead this out for $20 for value as you’re likely ahead of the random crap calling you and can lift off a 2 or 55 type hands with another barrel. Another way of doing this after you check is do a check raise here if the button folds to pressure and is deeper and your image is good. If the other two call you almost always have trips against you and you’re done but the button could even have king high here and executing a steal to a pot nobody seems to want. It looked like you played the AK oop with a fit or fold strategy to me this is a board assuming it’s rainbow you can often get most opponents to fold. The lower variance $ wise short of the check and hope everyone checks back till you hit and ace or king (but if you do and get action are often against trips) to me is a lead like you got JJ plus. You opened to $15 in a 1-3 that’s a standard over raise with AK and JJ and maybe QQ. Miles well just sell the story and lead $20. 3 callers yes but you’re lead looks like an over pair and QQ plus would have almost always 3! Pre and does a 6 want to go down with the ship ? If you’re image is good lead $20 and give up to aggression. You’ll be surprised how often you scoop the $45 here , to me more often than 1/2 then if they have 99 or a 6 you have 6 outs . Check if you hit turn pair A/K and see how they handle it. If it’s checked back you can assume with good confidence you have the best hand and get some reasonable 1/2 pot River value . Oh and if the middle position players had led out especially opponent to your left its to me a min straight draw that won’t fold to a check raise it’s much stronger that the button bet. I highly doubt the button had trips or a boat here. You also could have floated and represented any Jack or higher (AJ, AQ and AK) and taken a stab at the turn giving you 6 direct outs and 8 additional bluff outs …

[@AngryMonkeyPoker]

Thanks again for the explanation and advice. For sure going to take those spots and try implementing it into my game.