100bb"s with ace high..
I really don"t feel the spots are comparable at all.
- A top high stakes player dropped down to $100nl to make a vid
- Versus a competent $100 nl reg and likely a level 2 thinking player
- imho there is a vast difference in standard at $100nl compared to $50nl
I agree Brendan, I don"t think it was over playing his hand, but it does go some way to assessing his playing style. Noble"s assessment of my reads are pretty spot on, and I agree that maybe a push on the turn would have been a better move.
Ok, where to start, the overriding reason for the felting here 100% is based on the read of villain as a player who is likely to overvalue KJ,QJ,TJ, etc. and maybe even TT, they do exist and as noble1 rightly points out. Calling them down light is profitable, but high on variance!. That said, to commit to playing for 130 bb"s in an unraised pot (thats another issue) I"d need that read to be really really strong. If thats the case and you"re happy to embrace the variance and confident it won"t tilt you in the process. Getting the lot in the middle is fine.
There is a contradiction though, if we raise ai the flop or turn as suggested, what is our objective, value, protection, or bluff. There are a couple of possible results raising achieves....
- He calls with worse, score for value
- He calls and we"re beat, we valuetown ourselves
- He folds hands he may have continued to Barrell, value O.G, but we do protect against the unlikely outdraw.
- He folds hands that beat us, no chance
To summarise, the example previous hand given in op. does"nt back up the overvalues read on the villain very well and means little in isolation, and so, cast doubt as to the villains tendancies. You should have strong strong reads to adjust your stacking off standard this wide and if you did and there"s a happy ending, kudos to you Sir Mikey for the none to thinly veiled brag thread.
Raise preflop, AJs is not a strong trapping hand 6 handed, don"t discourage fish with weak/air hands from building a pot, raising them is like a reminder not to spew.