How to play premium pocket pairs in tournaments

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brightonlad

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My view of playing premium pairs is a definite 4 x raise in tournaments, or you end up with the potential of multi players in the pot.

Are there any other players that play differently, and what have you found to be the result of slow playing aces or kings for example ?

Would be interested to get feed back with experience of slow playing these.
 
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I play premium pocket pairs aggressively on tourneys.

I'm talking about anything on the range AA to JJ. AA and KK are shoving hands also, aw well as QQ in most cases. For JJ it depends.
 
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slow play does not always produce results
you must be sure that your hand is far ahead of the range of opponents
otherwise, you give others the opportunity to look beyond the streets and improve their hands against yours
because strong hands I try to play aggressively already preflop
and even I will do it if I have at least 65s but I'm in a position on you
I will do everything to confuse opponents in ranges and not be readable
although a slow game has its own advantages in the fight for a good pot
Use all tactics and strategies
 
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If you mean how to play premium pair on a preflop then the answer is simple:raise minimum 4 to 5 times.How you play them on the flop,turn and river depends on a situation.
 
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Must play aggressively and sometimes go all I. Pre FLOP if have players with low stack than you ..just play with them ..no with player with big stack
 
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Depending on one's position at the table, I think that the main strategy for playing a big hand before the flop is try and raise an amount that's large enough so that any potential caller who's holding a marginal hand, like a suited connector, would be making a bad call, statistically speaking, in calling your raise. You want to define your opponent's hand.
 
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Situation dependent.

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