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Originally Posted by thaskalos
Mike, do yourself a favor. Avoid any further advice from those who told you that you should have raised the flop to "see where you stand". The guy with the pocket aces would never have revealed the strength of his hand to you that early...so your flop raise wouldn't have gotten the desired result. And the idea of folding to the river jam is too ridiculous to comment on. Your demise was unavoidable in that hand...no matter what anyone else tells you.
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Spot On IMHO.
Folding to the river jam with such a strong hand is LOSING poker in the long-run, despite this individual hand loss. Just think about how many more times someone can push you off normally winning hands when you don't have the absolute nuts. That would be crazy and again losing poker. As thaskalos said, your demise was unavoidable in that hand.
And raising on the flop was going to get you either a call or a fold. Even bluffing (because they have position on you) is less likely when one risks busting out or severely damaging their opportunity to cash. So getting a call to that raise had the very high probability that you were significantly behind pre-turn, which is not when you want to get more money in the pot.
