Always lose with Aces. Advice please.

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I'm trying to build a bankroll by playing freerolls on ACR and Betonline. I've made several final tables and top 3 about 4 times in the last 2 weeks. Every time I get aces though I get put out or lose a lot of chips. Can someone give me some advice on a better way to play the best starting hand in hold em?
 
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Unfortunately I personally have not found the best starting hand. Try not to push and make the 5bet to opponents thinking. Just when you push very often it means that you want to steal the blinds. And your hand is not strong, something like a KJ or KQ. It is my observation.
 
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I only push early in freerolls, cause why not? But even later in the tourneys I always get sucked out on even with a good sized 3 bet pre flop. People are still calling off 15% of their stack with 6 3 suited pre flop.
 
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Only advice I can give is for you to remember AA is just 1 pair, and it isn't unbeatable.

In freerolls people will shove and call a shove with shit as they haven't invested any real money and they think fck it I'll gamble.

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Humble yourselves and remember this freeroll, where everything is possible.
 
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Over bigger sample size you'll see that aces do win approx 80% of time. Also, i flop is teerrible (something along JT9 suited and not matching any of your ace's suits) it's often correct to fold your aces when facing a lot of action on flop like hat.
 
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its a freeroll so pre flop bet something like 4 until 5 bb's to reduce the field, then is bet strong if the board is good for us.... But normally in the freerolls i simple shove AA one donk will call with garbage and normally we take it down
 
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Step #1, never ever use the terms, always or never when talking poker.
 
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Ok. Thanks guys/girls, I appreciate it. I may have been looking at it all wrong. I know that statistically I should be winning 75% against ATC. But bad beat after bad beat kinda makes you question things. I should stick to the math. Thanks again.
 
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Try to use "slowplay". It may bring some result but be carefull!watch the board.
 
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If you get your aces in good and they suck out on you your still making the profitable play in the long run. If your shoving aces on a draw heavy board expect someone to connect.

You are going to loose with aces but all we can do is get it in best and hope, playing slow can be good as we are given opportunities to throw them away on a draw heavy board, most players mistake is not being able to throw away pocket aces.

Just remember if there's a flush/straight/paired board pocket aces are still one top pair.
 
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It's really tempting to play aces but still it depends on the board. If it's heavy board I might fold.
 
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Try to use "slowplay". It may bring some result but be carefull!watch the board.

Definitely no. Slowplaying high pocket pairs very often backfire. One should slowplay only if they flop the nuts, to induce a bluff or if opponent is really aggro, to make them bet. If opponent is passive, just value bet.
When you got aces, you want to make villain pay the maximum to see more cards.
 
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Play more, get more volume.
In the end your EV will balance.
 
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Definitely no. Slowplaying high pocket pairs very often backfire. One should slowplay only if they flop the nuts, to induce a bluff or if opponent is really aggro, to make them bet. If opponent is passive, just value bet.
When you got aces, you want to make villain pay the maximum to see more cards.

If you improve on the flop you can slow play pretty happily, but make sure to get max value.
 
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For freerolls unfortunately perhaps there is no good advice. "Battle without rules".
 
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It would be much more helpful if you could post hands where you loose with Aces. They are good, but there are ways to play it so it's bad.

In a pot with 3-4 people in you need to just shove them PRE FLOP! You don't want your aces to try to win versus many hands, just to win against 1 hand post flop. You are 85% to win heads up, that's about 5/6, so you will loose 1/6 times.

3 way you loose 10% more of the time, and about 5% for each other person after that. Plus, the more hands that see post flop, the more likely people will catch a better hand such as trips when they had 5:1 to call with a small pair.

There's a time to play a big pair cagey, but most of the time raising to isolate is better. It's not 100%, and there will be times late in a tournament when you shove and the odds dictate everyone calls. That's just how it is, and when skill becomes simple gambling. Getting ahead early and holding that leads is what makes it so it's still about skill.
 
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If you have aces, attack, it is impossible to lose all the time with aces. It is the strongest couple!
 
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If more players involved in the hand,chances of winning with AA do decrease significantly,the best way is to raise big and isolate.
 
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Just don't overplay aces. It really depends on how your opponent acts and how the board is.
 
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Also you need to observe player stat,and should also consider folding on a drawy board.
 
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You need to be aggressive when you playing aces in most cases but sometimes you may do just call if you have active very aggressive player after you.In general your tactics of playing should depends on the opponents. Just don't forget that aces don't unbeatable cards and sometimes you may easely lose with them.
 
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try to bet 5 to 7 blinds pre flop and after the flop if you got A then try to trap him but if not got A on the flop then put pot and then in turn allin, most viable option as far as i know.
 
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