Early Double + Chip-up

After playing a few small pots early on, I looked down at AcJs facing a raise of 2.1k from a middle position player. This seems like a big raise when the big blind is 600, but he had done it twice before so I believed it was his standard open raise size (plus I had three bet him once with AA and he snap folded). I had 15.5k to start the hand and elected to call with my 26 big blind stack. Everyone else folded and we went to a flop of JcTc3s and my opponent continued for 5k into a pot of 6k. With a hand this strong and my stack as short as it was, I can never fold. If I elected to call I would have 7.7k left and the pot would be 16k, so I would appear committed anyway. Therefore I choose to move all in for 12.7k total, as my opponent could easily call the remainder with a worse hand. After a while he tossed the chips in and showed 5c5s. The board ran out 2h 7d and I doubled to 32k! Not long after, I faced an under the gun open raise and looked down at KsKd under the gun plus 1 (to his immediate left). There were still some short stacks at my table, and if I three bet here it’s clear I have a very strong hand, so I chose to just flat call as a trap and for deception. Unfortunately everyone else folded, and with 4.3k in the middle we went to a flop of KcJd6h. My opponent checked, I bet 1.5k, and he called. The turn came a Ts, not my favorite card as it completed a straight for AQ, but I believed he would bet that hand on the flop. He checked again, I bet 3.1k into 7.3k, and he called again. The river came a 5d and my opponent checked once more. I should probably be betting small here as I don’t have too many bluffs, but opted to go for 8k into 13.5k and my opponent went into the tank. “I have all the AQ blockers,” he said, meaning it would be hard for me to have the nut straight in terms of card combinations. He eventually made the call with what he said was AA, making me very pleased with my pre flop flat call, and propelling me up to 45k in chips. It’s currently break and I have 40k going into the 100/400/800 level, good for 50 big blinds. Hopefully I can continue to run good and spin it up!

My stack after the AJ double