Which hands to play preflop if someone calls u all in .

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Question about playing AK or AJ preflop.

Hi. I have a question how should i play AK or AJ preflop because i played freeroll today and I had AK. I went all in and i was infront and one guy touch on the river. How should i play those hands.
 
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Hey.
Which cards i should play preflop in tournament and if someone calls me all in . I am not professional and i do alot of training but i dont really know what to play preflop to go all in.
 
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id depends in whay stage of tournament or cash game you are.....position blinds....
2 much risks and desicions...
 
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if it's early stage of torunament (for example)
I showe all in with AK (suited or not )
some pocket pair's (i've never drop TT *my favorite card)
and often my desicion depends tha hands and bord before ....
I may call smb all in with suited 108 or 89....
I call this * I've a feelin that it's right desicion)
 
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basically its a gamble playing all-in pre-flop. I played a while ago all-in with KK in hand.
after showing cards my opp had K2
the flop was 6, 8 Q (no matching colors)
turn 2
river 2

My opp gambled and won.
 
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Hey.
Which cards i should play preflop in tournament and if someone calls me all in . I am not professional and i do alot of training but i dont really know what to play preflop to go all in.

It's hard to say, needed more information, but mostly it depends on the size of your stack and style game opponent ( tag or lag )

Hi. I have a question how should i play AK or AJ preflop because i played freeroll today and I had AK. I went all in and i was infront and one guy touch on the river. How should i play those hands.

In freeroll with hands AK or AJ, you must play on whole stack....
 
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AK all-in , АQ 3-bet, AJ call-folder
 
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Aside from freerolls (which I do not play), I can tell you most money players are not looking to put their whole stack in the middle unless they have to (running short stack) or if they have the absolute nuts (zero chance of being beat). They never want to risk going bust unless the have to. Tournaments are about surviving to the end.

So why do you think your only option is to put it all in the middle or not? Were you short stacked? How about just raising a reasonable amount so that if you don't hit the flop you can still keep playing?
 
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38S and j3os are the nutz!!
 
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AK and AJ are much different hands. I will call an allin practically all the time with AK preflop, but in most cases, it's a fold with AJ. I may call if the player is loose, and has a wider range. AK is much better than AJ because it holds the highest two cards in a deck, but this doesn't occur with AJ. AK beats AQ. AK has two overs against JJ and QQ.
 
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The only hand to go all in preflop is aces. Ak is not a favorite when the other player has pocket duces. Cash games and tournaments are played much different.
 
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No super council. Over time you develop into its own strategy.
 
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How you know for sure someone will call your all in?

Anyway, I do not mind shoving those top 4 hands preflop.
 
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I personally do not like pushing all my chips in before the flop no matter what. AK and AJ are still just Ace high.

I will play AK and AJ aggressively preflop and probably call an all in as much as I'd prefer not to. If I am going all in preflop, I prefer to do so with something more solid like AA or KK but even then I have to worry about being drawn out on.

I will especially be wary about putting all my chips in preflop when there are a lot of people already all-in before me: in that case, I worry my AK is beat out by a pair not to mention the further worry of one of my many opponents drawing for something much better than a pair. In this case, you'll find me folding my AK some percentage of the time since I'm likely beat

Many players like putting a lot of their chips in preflop. I personally like putting my chips in the pot when there is more information available (i.e. post flop).
 
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i used to go all in preflop with good cards
but it was painful because i had some bad beats
so no only when i am short stack or having a special felling
 
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i used to play AK-AQs all-in , АQs-AJo 2-3bet, sure its not perfectly well, but i must, cause a play low limits turbo+ and a lot of donks over there... excluse early positions, prefer raise smaller one, especially with huge stack
 
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Im not going all in pre with AK make a big raise and see what happens if you get put in then you still have to play it your way its not a made hand for sure
 
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It depends on your stack, but you should make your standard raise, with any hand, because if you go all in preflop when you have strong hands you are telling the other players when you have good or bad cards.
 
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It depends on your stack, but you should make your standard raise, with any hand, because if you go all in preflop when you have strong hands you are telling the other players when you have good or bad cards.

yeap it's true- stack means sometimes even more than your position ))
 
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