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Coach asked what hero does preflop. Scored max with call.

 Postflop call of pot sized bet with top pair appears to be a huge fail. 

The lesson here is that the call preflop was more about targeting a flush. Or maybe if top pair can get to showdown cheap.

The pair of aces facing a pot sized bet from the big blind and two callers. Does seem very likely that top pair is way behind with a weak kicker.

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Evan Jarvis provided this hand only a few days ago.

Initially I was thinking fold pre. Folding seemed a bit nitty when in position holding an Ax suited. Then the idea of squeeze came to mind. Was doubtful that squeezing would generate enough folds to be profitable. So left with the call and pray that the blinds don't squeeze seemed the logical path over the long game. 

It's certainly likely to be a spot that will be folded post flop often. But with the pot odds so nice and having position it seems that action is likely to be profitable over the long.

To give more detail the source of the hand was from a 1-3 live cash game at his local casino. He is mid deep with 150 blinds. I expect he would be one of the better players at the table.

I would guess He is incentivized to take more flops and play post flop often.

Agree with postflop but disagree pre. Yes, btn is more incentivized to call pre having position throughout the hand. But a call incentivizes sb and bb to open up their squeeze range and going 5 ways post with this holding is dangerous for the exact reasons that you describe. If you’re hoping to flush mine, you need to win 20% of the time for this to be +EV and your chance of hitting a flush is ~7%. A6s is a very playable hand heads up, the playability goes down multiway and it’s often dominated.

Curious who did the hand breakdown on PC