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I think the villain's raise on the flop was too aggressive, and that put him into the position of having to call your shove, I think. So if you realize how pot committed he is before you shove, maybe you don't try to blow him off a hand there. Of course, as played, he'd have picked up the OESD on the turn, and the rest of it would probably have gotten in anyway. So the only way you get away from it was probably to have folded to his raise on the flop.
But the other thing you could have done differently would have been to have raised pre-flop. He probably still calls, or perhaps re-raises, with the AJ in position. But showing strength from early position and giving him worse odds, and maybe keeping the other guy out too, would eliminate a lot of hands that might hit that flop.
It seems to me that your villain played this more aggro post-flop than was warranted, choosing a weak semi-bluff as a post flop raise here. Villain raises pre, then decides to rep overpair when the other villain leads out?
All that aside, you are $10 invested and on that flop, someone bets over 1/2 pot and gets raised. Why are you thinking this is a good spot to spend $179 on a $139 pot where you are behind?
I think you may want to run some calc and see how much equity you had in the hand against ranges. I think Joe could lead a 9 here, but would also lead 2 pair. When the raise comes, the AJ is the bottom of his range as they say. He could also easily have JJ here (blocking some of your outs), QQ-AA (as played), and Axd (of which still robs you of 2 your 8 OESD outs).
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I think the villain's raise on the flop was too aggressive, and that put him into the position of having to call your shove, I think. So if you realize how pot committed he is before you shove, maybe you don't try to blow him off a hand there. Of course, as played, he'd have picked up the OESD on the turn, and the rest of it would probably have gotten in anyway. So the only way you get away from it was probably to have folded to his raise on the flop.
But the other thing you could have done differently would have been to have raised pre-flop. He probably still calls, or perhaps re-raises, with the AJ in position. But showing strength from early position and giving him worse odds, and maybe keeping the other guy out too, would eliminate a lot of hands that might hit that flop.
It seems to me that your villain played this more aggro post-flop than was warranted, choosing a weak semi-bluff as a post flop raise here. Villain raises pre, then decides to rep overpair when the other villain leads out?
All that aside, you are $10 invested and on that flop, someone bets over 1/2 pot and gets raised. Why are you thinking this is a good spot to spend $179 on a $139 pot where you are behind?
I think you may want to run some calc and see how much equity you had in the hand against ranges. I think Joe could lead a 9 here, but would also lead 2 pair. When the raise comes, the AJ is the bottom of his range as they say. He could also easily have JJ here (blocking some of your outs), QQ-AA (as played), and Axd (of which still robs you of 2 your 8 OESD outs).
Why not fold?