Turn check to induce river action, not sure if I should have raised turn.

Don't really like this hand

Firstly i'd raise preflop. I've messed around with aces a fair bit now, but in general if i have Axs with my aces its a raise, if its big aces, like AAKTr or AAKQr i raise, and i'd only limpe the crappy aces like AA52r in first two positions.

I think there is too much value in raising and building a pot, assuming you have some control not to go crazy preflop - you should be open raising enough hands that people won't just put you on aces. Choosing to flat over 3betting is more interesting since 3bet ranges tend to be aces way more, but just go ahead and open and you'll win moooney.


On the turn i'd just bet again. I mean there aren't any draws really, and if you checkraise it looks really strong. Maybe bet a bit less than pot depending on your opponent, but here you have to hope he has a big hand/bluff catcher and bet/bet/bet looks the nicest line for me.

If i did check the turn, i think i'd tank and call and check the river. (or if hes sick passive just pot the river). I mean hes probably bad and bad players call too much, so bet bet bet works and doesn't have to worry about checkraising looking huge. Plus if u bet/bet/bet pot or w/e hes never folding 55 or AT or T5 you'd imagine, and sometimes he'll raise those, but if you checkraise turn i certainly think you can scare bad players off their hand.

Yeah he was pretty terrible and starting tilt-spew but I figured he'd check behind if I didn't bet riv. I generally don't raise AAxx PF unless it's quite strong but I've wanted to start working out where its best to do so. Thanks for the insight .

I think just building a pot for when you flop the nutflushdraw/top set is plenty reason to raise, and you just have to be happy to checkfold aces into large multiway pots on a fair amount of boards

Yeah I just found people were calling the raises so loosely at PLO50 I just ended up check-folding like 75% of the time.

Since I raise a pretty reasonable range of hands PF.