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Greatest pocket hand you can have, AA. I have seen it played wrong so many times. Depends on a tournament you re playing, but pocket AA should almost always be played all in. In some case its also good to raise 4,5 big blinds and see if someone will call. But worst thing you can do is just call blind. Id you do that you are letting players call and enter the hand with cards like 76 910 j9 even 83 if they are already big blind. And when on the flop are only small cards, you start raising, but you dont consider someone having two pairs,or straight. You will win like this 70% of time, but when you lose like that, you will lose a lot thinking you have the best cards. Play your AA aggressive and only like that.
 
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You have a 80% equity preflop with AA.
Yes you should try to get an all in pre but that is not standard.
It depends on the situation and the opponents that you have.
Is someone is tight then yes you should get in pre.
But is someone is too loose aggressive then you have to keep his bluffs in and let him hang himself.You don't want him to fold his hands.
But yes AA is the ideal hand to get in pre.
 
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I agree with you, I think the AA need to play very aggressively and not allow someone to get in with bad cards like the J9 910 ...:cool:
 
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Anyway it depends on the specific situation. Usually I prefer playing aggressive.
 
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It should be played aggressively but no going all in all the time, raise big x6 if necessary , you are only 80% against a player, if they are many more on the pot your odds decrease.
 
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AA should always be played aggressively preflop and then accordingly depending on the players and board texture. I've learned this the hard way losing my biggest hands unable to throw away AA/or KK.
 
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Your right..I have learned the hard way 3 times by slow playing my monsters thinking I'm trapping and they turn over 2 pair with Q8 and 67 and the 3rd time some1 flopped me dead with a flush with cards they would of folded if I played aggressive 29 hearts
 
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slow playing whenever you are in position is always bad in poker
 
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Do you know what's worse than slow playing AA? Complaining when your aces get out drawn. By all means slow play AA if that's how you roll, but don't start complaining when it all goes pear shaped. If you slow play AA you deserve anything you get.
 
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Yup, start slow playin an the swamp with get ya....
 
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Really? An AA thread? Today?

1 tourney, 2 AAs, 2 pf all ins, 2 called, 2 lost (7c 3d & pocket Js). Oh, and yesterday I lost the AA to a straight (six to ten or something, don't remember).

It's gonna take me a while to get over this and shove when I'm not at least 2x chipleader.
 
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It is only a pair. Why to go all in? You are not in a lottery! A raise is enough and can save you from troubles. The most important is that you can get more, if after the straight of the opponent, appears a foul with aces for me!
 
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this week i lost lost to loose calls eight time this week with pocket aces and kings. i get way more bad beat with aces kings than mid pair hands. crazy how this sites are rigged sometimes. maybe playing bot ..who knows
 
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absolutely agree, I also lose more with pocket AA and KK, and I'm more winning from 79 to 56, because this is not live poker, but online and how everything works here for ordinary mortals, do not know.
 
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You have a 80% equity preflop with AA.

From my experience and others this is only for LIVE tables.
Online AA all in pre-flop 1v1 is closer to 60-65% win ratio, consistently.
Maybe my luck is just bad when it comes to aces, who knows.

I tell myself that its the right choice going all in pre-flop, but it has let me down many many times.

If you are playing against noobies it might be a better choice to wait for somthing a lot stronger than a pair to go all in with. Or "the nuts"
 
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From my experience and others this is only for LIVE tables.
Online AA all in pre-flop 1v1 is closer to 60-65% win ratio, consistently.
Maybe my luck is just bad when it comes to aces, who knows.

I tell myself that its the right choice going all in pre-flop, but it has let me down many many times.

If you are playing against noobies it might be a better choice to wait for somthing a lot stronger than a pair to go all in with. Or "the nuts"

That's prob. because in online poker you have more chance of getting more than one player all-in preflop, lowering your chances of winning with AA.
 
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I play such a hand as AA only aggressively, because I had a bitter experience when I played only on poker bases, that I was moving much weaker hands, and therefore only raising the pond. Although in one of the books "Harrington Cache" the author mentions some of the professionals, I do not remember surnames who like to play this hand with a limp from an early position.
 
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I agree playing them aggressively is better, but there’s so many variables, players, stack size, position etc. I think the main point is their bullets, not bulletproof. At the end of the day their just one pair, don’t be afraid to fold
 
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Any premium card should be based on a flight from 4bb. And further, depending on your pair, the fact that the flop, with which stack opponent and what you have, as a rival himself leads at the table, the importance of the tournament for you.
 
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You have a 80% equity preflop with AA.
Yes you should try to get an all in pre but that is not standard.
It depends on the situation and the opponents that you have.
Is someone is tight then yes you should get in pre.
But is someone is too loose aggressive then you have to keep his bluffs in and let him hang himself.You don't want him to fold his hands.
But yes AA is the ideal hand to get in pre.
With 9 players and you with AA in early position, your chance to win is much less than 80%. 80% is for heads-up.
Depending of how agressive the play is, all-in might be required to get increase the chance to win, but you do get the risk of losing all.
I would raise at least 4bb, but more to assure not to have many opponents.
 
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AA definitely needs to play aggressively, but I have a small line to lure an opponent in the game to make money, otherwise the hand will be cool but ineffective.
 
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I think the main reason for not slow playing them is some1 who would of folded to a preflop raise mibby J8 A3 or even a 72suited could end up getting there with a flush or a straight or 2 pair AA is the nuts preflop but wen the other 5 cards r out anything can happen and trust me I'm speaking from a painful experience I put a thread about this 2 wks ago coz my aces got beat with 2 pair and a straight thanks 2 slow play. In 1 of them I was SB and every1 folded so I flat called to try and get some action and BB had 25 flop came A3K he lead out and I flat called again river was a blank 8 he checked so I'm feeling good about my 3 AAA if I raised pre he would of folded and if I raised on the turn he might of folded but I checked thinking I was trapping the river came a 4 he lead out again and I call for 70% of my chips and he has a straight lol. I thot he might have A3 or something but u liv and learn now I will always raise a premium up.
 
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Like everyone mentioned I hate slow playing Aces...but there are moments where it makes sense, you have to be ready to play a variety of different styles if you don't want opponents to pinpoint your strategy.
 
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AA I play aggressively. I try to knock out all that would stay 1-1, otherwise the power of the hand and the pot odds are lost. If you play slowly, in case of loss of hand, it's very difficult to fold AA.:pcguru:
 
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I completely agree with you

I completely agree with you. I'll tell my story about how I play AA. Previously, I almost always played AA limps, both in live poker and in online poker. In live poker, there were almost always those who raised after me, and then I turned all-in, and thanks to this I doubled my stack. In online poker, instead of winning 80% of the hands as it should be according to statistics, I won 40% -50% of the hands, because I was limping. After I started raising 3BB or more preflop, I started to win 80% of the hands. Of course, there is a risk that after your raise everyone will fold and no one will call, but you will rarely lose on aces. The same goes for KK.
 
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