Hi

I understand you are frustrated about your good hands seemingly being beaten. Well the thing to remember is this, if people can tell you are new to the game tight etc they will call you for a reason, the reason is that they hope that you will strongly overplay your AA in this spot. eg I see you raise know your tight and predict you have AA AK QQ etc and think this guy is new I have two suited cards and enough chips versus his stack to gamble also his range is high my cards are low so we will hit with different things, but I guess he might overbet or go all in to protect his AA AK etc. Now I call your 'relatively' small first raise with 24d and see the flop you described this is perfect for me as I now have a gutshot straight draw meaning all fives in the pack are going to give me a straight that I am almost certain has your AK AAA etc covered, on top of this I have a gutshot straight flush and flush draw. All I need to do is hit any diamond in the pack 30% and if I hit diamonds that give me a straight flush I even have a full house covered in the worst case scenario that you currently have a set of aces and improve to a full house. So when you go all in this oponenet knows you have it but he has deliberately called your raise while it was still cheap to see a flop like the one you described. If they had enough chips to easily cover this they are more likely to call because they only a slught underdog to AK almost even money and they are 33 to 66 against AAA but then again they may think there is a lot of money on the table. Many players target tight raises and they are worth watching for my guess is that had the flop been AK2 rainbow and you bet most of these callers simply fold, knowing it is an easy decision. This is a tough aspect of poker but if you watch players tendancies especially with raises you will get more of an idea what is happening when you bet and see a call you will begin to realise what they are trying to get to. Some players will call with literally ATC to make it more difficult for you to work out the funky hand they are trying to get too. Still you played that hand bravely and well but I might recommend that you can get cards like AA and raise them a ridiculous amount in relation to the blinds as sometimes hands like KK will still overraise you but hands like 24 diamonds are very much less likely to be in the mix, my perspective on AA is this you want to play vs another tight player with them and bust AK AQ with them. This hand that you are describing to me happened to me a while back and I busted someones aces with a 34567 straight but they did two things wrong they bet 3 xx bb with aces making my call an easy one then went all in without the set when I had an open ended straight flush draw more powerful draw than the one you came against. I was 70% percent favourite to win at the all in would I gamble here yes of course 70 percent odds with enough chips to cover their stack is fine by me

So to simplify that first response people will often loose call with suited cards suited connectors to the first raise in the hope of a good flop with the flush straight cards they like if they don't get this its an easy fold for them having lost only the first raise amount if they do hit it and you overplay AA with all they take your chips. Hope this helps. So watch for suited cards when you raise and if they miss raise again also watch for the basics of a small straight especially ones that stuff like 56 will fit into as suited connectors are the strongest of the small cards

Sounds like you do better at Limit than no limit.

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