How would you bet A,K on the button with 6 limpers in front of you?
I've been playing at a very loose semi- aggressive $1/2NL Holdem live casino table.
Many of the players are calling with any two suited cards, whether connected or not, and many go in with a face card and pathetic kicker.
I'm on the button and I get dealt A,Ksuited. 6 people limp in with $2. I raise to $15. Usually that will get most of them out but they all call my preflop raise.
So now there is $90 in the pot.
Flop comes rainbow 9,6,3
Everyone checks around to me. So far I noticed while playing here that no one ever check raises, so I read that nobody paired up since no one bet. I noticed that if someone paired up, they'd at least bet $10, especially with so many in the pot.
I also figure that if they all called my $15, maybe there were alot of face cards dealt??
Not wanting any of the other 6 players to stay in this $90 pot and everyone being so passive. I also figured if I didn't bet big enough, someone would call me since the pot was so big.
So I boldy bet $100 with a moment pause when my turn comes up.
The blinds fold, and an EP caller thinks about it for a long minute...he's got $86 left, he decides to go All-In and call me and I think "oh man, he hit a pair, or he has a pair, or pretty much he's gotta have something over my A,K"
The last 3 callers fold and its heads-up between him and I.
Turn comes a 5
River comes a 7
I pretty much figure I lost $115. there are 2 different straights on the board if he has an 8 or a 4 or has paired up anything.
They all look to me to flip since he called my bet. I flip......I wait for him to flip and see his shoulders visibly slump as he chucks his cards in face down.
Everyone gasps, I win with Ace high????
What did he have? Why would he go All-In and call my $100 bet? Moments later he rebought in at another $100 and went all in 10 minutes later and lost again....and again didn't show his cards.
