I don't like the way I played this hand. This is on Absolute so there are a lot of short buy-ins. I bought in for the max $50 and ran into the only other normal stack at the table. He wasn't really a fish; definitely a LAG. He was talking about how tight the table was and he seemed to be bluffing quite a bit.

Stage #171638669: Holdem No Limit $0.10 [ 2005-08-16 19:53:59 ]
Seat 9 - GUYONTHECOUCH $47.67 in chips
Seat 1 - GLOBAL72 $10.10 in chips
Seat 2 - BIGMACKPSU $63 in chips
Seat 3 - RANGERFISH $4.72 in chips
Seat 4 - JW760 $29.50 in chips
Seat 5 - JPOJ $25.59 in chips
Seat 6 - KBOP $20.75 in chips
Seat 7 - MYKEYII $20.55 in chips
Seat 8 - ACES IN HOLE $25.50 in chips
*** BLIND [dealer 9] ***
GLOBAL72 - Post small blind $0.10
BIGMACKPSU - Post big blind $0.25
GUYONTHECOUCH - Pocket [Ah,Ac]
RANGERFISH - Folds
JW760 - Folds
JPOJ - Calls $0.25
KBOP - Folds
MYKEYII - Calls $0.25
ACES IN HOLE - Calls $0.25
GUYONTHECOUCH - Raises $0.25 to $1.25
GLOBAL72 - Folds
BIGMACKPSU - Calls $1
JPOJ - Folds
MYKEYII - Folds
ACES IN HOLE - Folds
*** FLOP [Qh,As,7c] ***
BIGMACKPSU - Checks
GUYONTHECOUCH - Bets $2
BIGMACKPSU - Calls $2
*** TURN [Qh,As,7c,5d] ***
BIGMACKPSU - Bets $5
GUYONTHECOUCH - Calls $5
*** RIVER [Qh,As,7c,5d,7h] ***
BIGMACKPSU - Bets $5
GUYONTHECOUCH - Raises $5 to $20
BIGMACKPSU - Folds


I always seem to stumble when I hit big hands. I don't know if I should slowplay or not. When I decide to bet/raise, I don't know how much. My river raise was definitely too high. Is this where I should min-raise? Should I have gone for it earlier?

i think you got as much out of this as you could. He probably had nothing. Only thing i could think of is raising to $15 instead.

I'm amazed you got as much out of it as you did. I might have checked the flop with the deck crippled with 3 aces out.

Tim