I think this is most likely close enough to not matter too much either way, think what you might do with AJs in this spot.
As I understand AJs does so much better against villain"s range than A10 - less chance of JJ, Dominates all J combinations, overpair to 10"s.
Great response all - thanks.
How much better ? would you consider it a marginal decision to jam AJs in this same spot?
lol - can I retract the "so much"? I can"t really quantify this mathematically without poker stoving it or something - I think from experience/general maths the AJ is an easier Jam generally in this type of spot - especially when we get a villian with much looser calling tendencies as we dominate/flip more hands. This shifts odds in our favour against many hand match up"s which I can only conclude is positive??
I don"t usually discuss or work on a lot of strategy stuff especially ranges/maths so I may have some serious deficiencies in this area of my game. As the general pool of players gets stronger these marginal decisions will be the difference.
Against this particular villain in this particular hand AJ & A10 were probably not much different relatively- just the experience of the player. Was hoping for bad call, fold or flip when called.
Would love to be corrected on my understanding of AJ/A10 differences here if I"m wide of the mark here.
For fun, this is how to bust the same tourney the following night when trapping an Aggressive Player:
PokerStars Hand #107187998484: Tournament #814579997, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVIII (2000/4000) - 2013/11/18 1:23:11 UTC [2013/11/17 20:23:11 ET] Table "814579997 814" 9-max Seat #7 is the button Seat 1: victorfrutal (217908 in chips) Seat 2: nightbully (129621 in chips) Seat 3: Simuk1 (158913 in chips) Seat 4: RaVeN_cs (242560 in chips) Seat 5: ZaraNorbi (162501 in chips) Seat 6: liv_hbk (75874 in chips) Seat 7: Akifart (168022 in chips) Seat 8: J_Sniper11 (162965 in chips) Seat 9: MrMo19 (228258 in chips)
victorfrutal: posts the ante 500
nightbully: posts the ante 500
Simuk1: posts the ante 500
RaVeN_cs: posts the ante 500
ZaraNorbi: posts the ante 500
liv_hbk: posts the ante 500
Akifart: posts the ante 500
J_Sniper11: posts the ante 500
MrMo19: posts the ante 500
J_Sniper11: posts small blind 2000
MrMo19: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to nightbully [
As]
victorfrutal: folds
nightbully: raises 4500 to 8500
Simuk1: folds
RaVeN_cs: folds
ZaraNorbi: folds
liv_hbk: folds
Akifart: raises 11399 to 19899
J_Sniper11: folds
MrMo19: folds
nightbully: calls 11399
*** FLOP *** [
]
nightbully: checks
Akifart: bets 16598
nightbully: calls 16598
*** TURN *** [
] [
]
nightbully: checks
Akifart: checks
*** RIVER *** [
] [
]
nightbully: bets 24000
Akifart: raises 107025 to 131025 and is all-in
nightbully: calls 68624 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (38401) returned to Akifart
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Akifart: shows [
] (a flush, Queen high)
nightbully: shows [
As] (two pair, Queens and Deuces) Akifart collected 268742 from pot nightbully finished the tournament in 330th place