You want stacks in preflop at all times with AA, to protect your equity.
With KK you can consider flatting 3bet if you think Villain is not getting it in without QQ+, and for deception sometimes. Plus it saves you some money if an A comes on the flop, because in a 3bet or 4bet pot, an Ace comes off and you're dead.
You want stacks in preflop at all times with AA, to protect your equity.
With KK you can consider flatting 3bet if you think Villain is not getting it in without QQ+, and for deception sometimes. Plus it saves you some money if an A comes on the flop, because in a 3bet or 4bet pot, an Ace comes off and you're dead.
The death of many a KK is when they shove on an ace high flop.
you can just feel them kicking themselves.
how do you ensure you get stacks in AA preflop, i mean sometimes ill be in the big blind and the small blind will have ago by 3 betting and then I 4 bet and they fold.
or worse it just gets folded to you, (this really bugs me)
You can't really "ensure" stacks are in the middle preflop. Aleksei just means that you shouldn't shut down at any point preflop until you have nothing left in front of you or your opponents have nothing left. Not to say you should just go all-in immediately, but you should be feeding the action until it makes sense to do so.
If it is folded to you on the button, yeah, it is a bummer, but still you should raise. I've seen so many players limp in with Aces in this situation and end up getting ripped apart by some horrible big blind hand that would have folded to a raise preflop.
There's nothing you can do about that really. Just keep raising until stacks are in, everyone flats or someone folds -- if no one has a hand that will play ball with AA then you're not stacking anyone anyway. Plus the more money is in the pot preflop, the less speculative ranges are postflop and the less likely it is you're coolered.The death of many a KK is when they shove on an ace high flop.
you can just feel them kicking themselves.
how do you ensure you get stacks in AA preflop, i mean sometimes ill be in the big blind and the small blind will have ago by 3 betting and then I 4 bet and they fold.
or worse it just gets folded to you, (this really bugs me)
Plus it saves you some money if an A comes on the flop, because in a 3bet or 4bet pot, an Ace comes off and you're dead.
Well I did add the caveat that we flat 3bet if Villain isn't getting it in without QQ+. So, the basic assumption is we're up against a nit. vs a normal reg with an uncapped range that includes AK and/or JJ/TT (especially in LP-blind situations), we just try and get stacks in pre.Considering regs 3bet a lot of non Ax hands against us
You are not necessarily losing value by only 4-betting AA/KK as long as your range is polarized to include junk when you 4-bet: if it is obvious you are 4-betting only great hands, you are certainly being exploited. I am a huge fan of flatting big pocket pairs heads up in position.
I never just bet 3$ i will more often throw out 3.11$ or 3.87$ throwin them lucky numbers out there are the way to go. I think betting by these rules throws off the suttleness of your betting. Changing things up is a good way to realize your value.
72s is playable on the button actually (though just barely so). The worst hands in poker are 72o in a tight dynamic, and 32o in a wide/steal dynamic.Hate AA , yesterday my friend shared a hand with pocket AA losing against 7 2. As i know 7 2 is the worst hand u can have in poker?