Nut draw on turn, NL MTT | Daily Hand Quiz

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Game type: $163 freezeout, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: Mid stages
Your image: Tight
Opponent’s image: No read
Your hand: A♣A♠

The setup: You get AA this hand and limp UTG. No one takes the bait and the table folds to the BB, who checks.

You flop an overpair and the draw:

8♣4♣J♣

The BB leads for 500, and you call. The turn semi-bricks with the 7♠.

The BB leads for 1000.

What’s your play?

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Rogier

I would call, in hope of another spades to drop. We still have the highest pair, maybe he just hit the J with a low kicker. Worst case he hit J8 (two pair).

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Groundhog day

I’m raising. I may be behind but v cannot have the nuts so I’m going to use that knowledge to put the pressure on. Plus I don’t want to have to show that I limped with aces (which I hate even more with antes). Arrrr in!

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Pirate21

Raise. Our hand is very well disguised here. Decent chance our aces are good. If not (maybe V has some sort of 2-pr, unlikely set or straight?), we still have between 9 and 17 outs. Given somewhat akward stack size, I’d shove and try to take it down now.
With our tight image, he’s likely to give us credit for a hand.

Side note…. there are times when it makes sense to limp with aces. UTG is generally not one of them. It’s a really bad idea to give the entire table odds to limp preflop and see 60% of the board before having to make a real decision. AA is a great hand against 1-2 players, but it loses value with every additional player that sees the flop on the cheap. Play your Aces aggressively from EP – or don’t complain when you get sucked out on.

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obmeister

I vote call. As played, allowing BB to check pre, any 2-pr. is possilbe so hero can easily be behind. Hero’s equity is approx. 2 to 1 against that hand so a call is profitable. Even if V got lucky with a made straight, odds are approx. 3 to 1 to win for the hero. Control the pot size and just call. AA may still be good against the V’s range but don’t risk your stack in a limped pot by raising now.

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I just call for pot control in case we hate the river. Then make a decision based on the river card.

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Hey! I thought I was T! In spite of this little identity crisis, I kind of agree with my namesake. We are not all that well disguised. EP limps by tight players are often rockets. V’s line reeks of a bb special building a pot.
Call here for pot control, don’t even rule out finding a fold on the river. Our time to raise was the flop, where we lost value by treating our hand as just a draw, imo.

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