wtf, you never fold AA think about it.........best hand preflop...BEST HAND..............who wouldnt call with the best hand PREFLOP!!!
I wouldnt call if my tourney life were on the line and it was the first hand (equal chip stacks) and everyone (yes every player) were already allin ahead of me...
who wouldnt call? I wouldnt lol...
i would never fold aces preflop. if you fold aces preflop what possible hand could you be waiting for to make that call?
NEVER? I mean this is the problem with this thread. How can someone say that they would NEVER (as in never ever) fold AA? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but AA is far from bullet proof and indeed there are circumstances when you should probably fold them.
I totally agree with odinscott's replies. Have, and will again, fold those rockets preflop in the right situation. OK, so I wear a skirt, and have no nuts - BUT - I have chips and a chair. Which one's more important?
Those who will NEVER fold an AA hand preflop play NoLimitLuckem, not poker, imo.
^^^ Good post.
Sorry about the repeat post, but this quote wasn't there when I first replied. It's not about what hand qualifies for all-in preflop. It's about ANY hand being worthy of betting the farm in multi-way all-in pots.
All-in preflop in anything but HU is marginal at best. Play Holdem, not Luckem.
Consider - you've put up $25,000 CASH to be in a WPT event or $10,000 for the WSOP ME. It's the first hand and you have those rockets. Five ahead of you are all-in (unlikely at one of these events) and it's on you in the BB. You're all-in or all-out at 6:1. Still willing to 'gamble' ??
What makes $1 any different ?? Or are there special rules/decks for $1 games and high stake MTT's ??
Agreed, but honestly in the 1 dollar situation I would call.
In the 25,000 dollar buyin, I think maybe (just maybe) I would fold. I like to get my money in where I know that I am probably going to get paid off. I am not in the habit of shoving where it is a coin flip and my tourney life rests on the result...
Why would anybody fold aces preflop????
See above...
I still would probably beat all of the other people into the pot, if I put down that much money to enter I wouldn't be playing scared because there is no way I'd win. You still have a better chance to win than all of the other players. Any time I can get my money in with the nuts I'm happy.
You dont have the nuts though. In fact you are at best a coin flip if everyone else is already allin. You would risk 25 thousand dollars, in that situation? Why not just fold and outplay all of the rest of the players that didnt take a gamble like this one?
This thread crops up every 3 or 4 months, and gets virtually identical responses each time.
Poker IS gambling. If you are unwilling to take 4/1 odds when you are 6/4 favourite to win, because you are a 4/6 favourite to lose, then you simply will not be a winning player. That is a basic fundamental of poker.
That is just wrong. Poker is about outplaying your opponents, not putting your entire life on the line, in what at best is a situation where you have a slight edge. If you are a 4 to 1 favorite against 1 other hand, what kind of favorite are you against 8 other
hands?? I propose to you, that if you are that willing to shove your tourney life on the line, getting a very slight
odds favorite, that you probably wouldnt be a winning player. The basic fundamental of poker is to win. It is to win by playing better than your opponent, not by getting all you money (and your tourney life) in when you are a slight favorite.
I am not saying that it isnt correct to shove with AA ever. In fact almost always it is the correct move. BUT the point to the question is that there are cases when you should fold them. To the people that think that poker is a big gamble and that you should get your money in whenever you are a favorite (no matter how slight - 51/49 for instance), well good luck with that. Myself, I will wait until I am a 90/10 favorite before I put my 25,000 buyin on the line.
The point is that it is incorrect to say that you should NEVER fold AA preflop. There are situations where it is +EV to fold them and wait for a better spot. That is assuming that you are better than your opponets and you can outplay them later on through out the tournament. While you wont get the big 8x stack right off, if you are a better player, you will get all of those same chips later on as the tourney progresses. Now if you think that you are not as good as your opponents, and you will need the 8x stack because you will donk all of those chips off and you want to make it ITM at least, then sure go ahead, call the allin and pray to get lucky.