A couple of hands, a couple of nights.

[Unibomber14]

I was playing some local games last weekend and the weekend before. One of them was a ways out of my bankroll, but I was sure I was the best player there, and the other was my normal cash game.

The first was a crazy donk game with a $100 min. At my normal home game, we always buy in with the min. At this place, I bought min., my two buddies did the same, and everyone else bought with like $500. That's a lot of money to me. Anyway, I decided to sit and play super nit poker. Well I wasn't doin so hot, re-bought, and came across this hand:

Blinds: $1-2 (These low blinds were a godsend to my little stack)
Hero is dealt Ac, As
UTG:folds
3 Folds
MP4:Bets $27
LP1:Calls $27
4 Folds
BB: Hero raises $53 to $77 All-in
MP4:Calls $53
LP1:Calls $53

Flop: 5s, Jc, 2h
MP4:checks
LP1:checks

Turn: 7s
Both check

River: 5h
both check

Hero has Ac, As (one pair Aces)
MP4 has Kc, Qc (king high)
LP1 has Ah, 5c (three of a kind 5's)

Now I would have put this in the bad beats section, but My buddy who was at the game was saying that at a table like that you souldn't push all-in preflop with Aces because they get cracked too often. I thought I played it well. Please let me know what you think.

Also, at my $20 weekend game, my buddy told me I had a tell. The rest of the night, he was calling my hands almost exactly, and eventually took me out. I didn't rebuy because I didn't want to take the chance of tilting. Can someone have a tell that precise and noticable? Did he suddenly become a better player than me? If so, how can I get rid of this tell?

[donkbee]

You played it correctly.

You can't get rid of your tell unless you know what it is? Ask him!

Welcome to FTR.

[pokerroomace]

you played the hand perfect. your friend is wrong.

just because you have a tell doesn't make him a better player. try and figure out what the tell is and then give him the tell at the wrong time and you'll make a lot of your money back.

one thing that helped me a bit is just doing random stuff on random hands, but stuff that i know i do on more crucial hands too.
i talk too much when i play with friends and give away way too much info. also, in the way that i act. i noticed some of the things that i do (for example, look down at my stack when i'm going to raise and then pretend i'm thinking about the hand, pretending i'm weak. lol). i don't mean to do this but it happens. so now a lot of the time i do the same thing and look down at my stack with any 2 cards, i'll then think for a bit, and then check or fold.

think about how you play your hands, think about how you act and talk when you have certain hands and then try to replicate that in other situations. this helped me get rid of some of my tells.

i've heard that phil ivey rolls his eyes around randomly on many hands so that players can't get a read on him. the movement of a players' eyes can say a lot about their hand and how interested they are in it.