Playing AA preflop

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Do slow play it hoping some one raises, so you wait and come over top and re raise to take a big pot. Playing all in for a call or take pot.
 
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if your playing small stakes people aren't going to give you credit for AA pre flop or don't understand how to read players mostly. get the chips in with a good opening bet and some will call you. then re-eval after the flop. I usually just jam AA in small stakes.
 
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Enter panic mode :)

your leading pre flop so I guess play it as hard as you can, raise hopefully somebody comes over the top so you can push them all in and then PRAY you come out the right side !!

I find it harder with KK, QQ, JJ tbh any ace and you have no idea how to play it if somebody bets hard ??
 
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in theory, all described correctly, you can not play Slow Play !! How many times I lost, when your opponent with more powerful combination! As a result, the big loss !!
 
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I'm definitely sure, that you should raising strong hand preflop to be sure any 27o, T6o, and other suited trashes will fold. Then be sure, in opponent have Ax ore KQ+ your raise will nice signal to him, that if he get his cards on the flop, you will pay him lots of money. In this case, your ACES could play a crucial role!!!
 
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When stacks are more than 40-50 bb's then you should always raise or reraise with AA. It does makes a lot of sense as you will sometime 3bet as a bluff with hands like AJo as it play poorly when cold calling, so it will be harder for your opponent to put you on AA, and your aces are going to be paid. When you are less then 40 bb's or there is a re-shoving stack (<25 bb's) behind you or you believe reg behind you can squeeze, then it make a LOT of sense to just call and hope for action behind you. GL
 
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No. Usually limp/raise preflop line seems very strong and your opponent will give up easlily especially at micro. But sometimes, calling someones preflop isnt bad idea, for example, if my opponent have high flop c-bet, I may flat AA and raise his c-bet on the flop. But usually raise is fine.
 
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I like to use the philosophy that AA only plays well against 1, and only 1 opponent, so you are trying to isolate. From early position, you should play it like you would normally play a raising hand so you don't telegraph your cards, but in late position against limpers you should raise enough to eliminate the marginal hands who could get lucky, and against a raise I think you should re-raise to isolate raiser and eliminate possible callers if they think the price is right. I have seen most players raise a pre-flop raise by 4 to 4.5 times the original bet. Limping is a gambling strategy, and if you do so, do it on the explicit understanding that if you get beat, it was probably because you let in a marginal hand who got lucky. If you don't mind losing against the possibility of a big score if you do hit, then go for it.
 
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I usually try to distract people when I have KK AA lol. Therefore my small raise (x2 x3 BB) wont show anything. And usually, too, someone would reraise for me.
 
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Depends on the table your on but be careful of limping in with them as you will let in worse hands that out flop you.
 
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if i have a couple of lag players to act after me i might try to disguise my aces some-it realy is table dependant-gotta watch slow playing aces ,its easy to get burned by letting to many see the flop
 
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It´s a good strategy when you´re playing at table with loose / aggressive villains. You can explore this resource a lot, against them.

But in early positions , I´ll always recommend you to raise , avoiding a multiway pot.
 
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in theory, all described correctly, you can not play Slow Play !! How many times I lost, when your opponent with more powerful combination! As a result, the big loss !!

yeah if you slow play it and you dont get re raised, you get screwed over alot of the time
 
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I dont like limping with aces unless I am willing to fold at a crappy flop. Too many times I slowed played and got sunk because I did not push out weaker players with a strong bet. But knowing the vibe of your table, your position and the stakes all add to how to play it properly. In other words no hard and fast rule
 
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I had very difficult to play AA in pre flop, especially being under the gun on the table. For he thought, if increased too to avoid losing to a player with crazy letters, the staff at the desk was scared and not bet. The best thing is you be the final position of the table and see this letter, because there you do your game. When you are in the starting position, the ideal is to increase a little, not too much to call one or two players to compete with you.
 
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I have been caught often trying to slow play AA I have decided its not the best way to play this hand a good 3 - 5 BB depending on the play of the table should clear out fish at least may them pay to be involved
 
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I see a lot of posts about slow playing big hands, asking about AA or KK. I don't think these are big hands, still just 1 pair.

Commonly the best hand is 2 pair or better. Flop 2 pair, a set, flush, straight, ect... are a big hand that at your option could be slow played. I'm not sure how you slow play 1 pair.

Yes AA and KK are the best starting hands, but often its very hard to get them to improve. The best strategy is to always play them aggressively or you are going to see them "cracked" at a higher percentage than normal.
 
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I always raise with AA, cuz when i call usually someone with 4 5 beats me.
so i raise about 4 bbs
 
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Why would you limp in with AA ? Fancy an early exit, raise a decent amount and hope they call with ace 10 ace 5 etc take the wedge then sit tight :)
 
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i believe that you have to be aggressive on these situations..passive game is being punished..
 
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think this depends very much on the effective stack sizes, the villans, and your tourney equity
 
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I wish I knew how to slow play AA , but most of the times I tried it I have bad memories , limpers won the pot and I got beaten and lost a big part of my stack or all of it . That's why I always raise , and if I am on early position I prefer raising a 4x or more if it's early or if it's a low buy in tournament and the blinds are low I shove and hope sb to call :).
 
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Always need raise preflop cuz random hands K 10,J 9,9 10 can beat u)
 
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people suggesting raise 3-4bb from early, this will only ever ever work if your also raising a few other hands and by the same ammount, otherwise good players will look at your raise and only get involved if they can set up a trap of some kind (set mining) etc etc

now as this is in the tournament section i can add my two cents on the hand
AA is only a pair, yes, and early in the tournament without any info you can safely know that you will only ever win a small pot or lose a big one, so dont try and get stacks in the middle with it, unless your fully aware villain will overplay his TPTK hands (that is extremely situational like many aspects of poker)

but thats early in an MTT, later on players tense up and either 2 things are happening, you have a big stack bully at the table, or you have a passive table
dependant on the table depends on how you carry on playing
if there is a big stack bully, you can start considering how to get stacks in the middle by the turn (all this will depend on how much you need to raise pre)
now if your on a passive table, make a standard 2.2x raise (its my magic figure but midway in the tournament if your raising 3x or more your usually polarising your hand to the top 3 and wont get much action
but again if its a passive table your not likely to get in the stacks by the end of the hand

finally by the time your in 20bb or less,
12-20bb you are hoping somebody raises so you can 3bet them, but by this stage your standard raise should be 2bb and if you have been raising 2bb for all your steals you should also do it with A A
10bb its going in regardless your only move with any hand should be all in, so they will never find out that you have A A and your hoping they have some sort of hand

the final note is, you should know your opponent if you can figure out his betting patterns you can usually figure out when an OverPair is good enough to win you the hand, if you get unlucky then so be it it will happen, but when you know your beat, get out fast lol
 
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still did not work clot followed my 4BB with 10,2 suited and again pot raise and then allin hit flush on river no real justice lol
 
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