Do you slow play AA KK QQ?

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It's better to win only the blinds than to lose a stack and give your opponent a cheap look at the board.
 
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Sure, slow playing this hands is usually a bad idea. Logically you get more bad beats if you play slowly with good odds, I prefer go all in maybe one or two players follow me better than playing slowly and lose a big stack with a 3% preflop hand.
 
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These are generally acceptable actions from final positions, but like everything in poker it depends on several factors, including information from the villains.

When we study some GTO situations for strong hands from late position (depending on the stack), we should play slower including KK, QQ, JJ... But as always it's bizarre how many times good hands are broken by anything, so each You see, I'm less inclined to play that way.
 
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It's better for you to rasie and win blind, than to lose to SB or BB with trash cards
 
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I usually raise and all-in and play with whatever other junk is standing next to me 🌋
 
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I try to play aggressively, not allowing my opponent to collect a combination for free, but there are aggressive players against whom you can play passively - they themselves will bet
 
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Slow playing with one hand depends especially on the position you are in, and the players you have at the table.
Example, the best place for me to slow play is UTG1 or MP.
If you have players who do a lot of squiz or reraise in late positions, it is therefore advisable to make a slow play to catch their hand.
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When holding AA KK we should not slowplay, or make 3-bet, 4-bet, allin orders to get an advantage.
 
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A year after the start of the game, AA is no longer so happy, but if it's an all-in freerroll.
 
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I think this depends on the stack depth, villans, and icm.

Generally you do not want to slow play aces deep. They are a good hand to win a small pot and a great hand to lose a big pot.

I think you can limp them from 1BB to 18BB, but a lot of the time thinking players will notice when someone playing ABC poker high blind limps. It kinda sets off alarm bells.
 
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It depends of position.. And nunber of players in hand.. It s painful to lose with does cards.. So better bet bigger and take lesser chips than nothing or lose with those cards
 
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No, it's best to break these cards as a strong hand because you have a really strong hand just watch cards for free, you don't need to let your opponent pay to watch the cards so it's best to play cards aggressively, but at high limits you can also play limpit
 
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No,I prefer play agressively top pairs
 
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I prefer not slow play those pairs but depends of situation.. If it's close to buble I would even fold them.
 
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I constantly lose but go all in just win the blinds.nothing worse than having pocket As and everybody folds
If you are picking up 2-4 big blinds, from the blinds and a limper or two, by having them fold means that you are picking up 200-400 big blinds every 100 hands with zero variance. Sounds like a sweet deal to me.
 
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Don't slow play QQ, it just gets messy on the flop.

KK and AA you can slow play in certain situations. For example if you know someone is likely to squeeze behind you then flatting a raise can be ok. Or if someone is 3 betting aggressively you can flat and disguise the strength of your hand.

But you want to do the majority of your slow plays in position and you have to remember, unless you improve you still only have one pair. So in the majority of situations you want as much in the pot pre flop as possible.
 
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QQ i would play extremely conservatively , carefully nowadays in online poker , i have many bad hands and bad beats , especially against sets lol
 
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Like others said- it depends on the situation. For example, if I have AA in early position and there is a high propability that someone raise after I call, I do it often that I first call and then 3-bet.
 
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Like others said- it depends on the situation. For example, if I have AA in early position and there is a high propability that someone raise after I call, I do it often that I first call and then 3-bet.
And what other hands do you do that move with?
 
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I think this depends on the stack depth, villans, and icm.

Generally you do not want to slow play aces deep. They are a good hand to win a small pot and a great hand to lose a big pot.

I think you can limp them from 1BB to 18BB, but a lot of the time thinking players will notice when someone playing ABC poker high blind limps. It kinda sets off alarm bells.
Beware of the limper as the old saying goes.

That is only true if you don't have a balanced limping range (or notice some aggressive players to exploit).
 
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That depends on how many chips I have and where I am in. salutes
 
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