I'd like to get our experts' advice on this issue.

I find (probably like most of you), that in ring games I win the most in the following (or similar hands).

I have 33. Villain raises pf, I call. Flop comes 3AA, villain has AK or AQ, and we play for stacks.

This hand also plays out the same if flop is 3AK and villain has AK.


I have realized something though. The money I make off of these hands is absolutely meaningless, if I can't make these laydowns when the tables are turned. I think this is why my bb/100 is so meager. At 25nl over about 9000 hands, I am 9bb/100 (in the midst of a downer, however).

Could some of our vets posts some hand histories where they made laydowns with Top two pair or trips in the face of a boat or straight, and give me your thought process behind what made you decide to fold?

I bet if I could just make prudent laydowns in 30% of all of these situations that occur, I could double my winrate.