Playing full table ring, what is the earliest position that you will play:

AQ suited and unsuited?
AJ suited and unsuited?

Originally Posted by Mr.McJ

Playing full table ring, what is the earliest position that you will play:

AQ suited and unsuited?
AJ suited and unsuited?

Depends on the type of table. I tend to fold AQo and AJo from the first 3 positions. I will begin either limping or raising with them in middle depending on the table. I will of course raise AJsooted and AQsooted from middle position. In middle and late position I fold AJo to any raise and sometimes call AJsooted and AQo and AQ sooted. If there has been a raise and reraise I fold most all in all positions. If the table is very loose with a lot of preflop limping I will sometimes raise AQo and AQsooted UTG to mix it up and see what happens. Otherwise I have completely removed AJ sooted or otherwise from my early position play.

Originally Posted by KRE8R

Depends on the type of table. I tend to fold AQo and AJo from the first 3 positions. I will begin either limping or raising with them in middle depending on the table. I will of course raise AJsooted and AQsooted from middle position. In middle and late position I fold AJo to any raise and sometimes call AJsooted and AQo and AQ sooted. If there has been a raise and reraise I fold most all in all positions. If the table is very loose with a lot of preflop limping I will sometimes raise AQo and AQsooted UTG to mix it up and see what happens. Otherwise I have completely removed AJ sooted or otherwise from my early position play.

Agree pretty much with that.

Obviously it depends on the table but i tend to be a bit more LAG with them. I don't like to limp with either in early or middle position, preferring a fold or raise strategy, generally folding AJ until middle and mostly folding AQ UTG.

Originally Posted by Mr.McJ

Playing full table ring, what is the earliest position that you will play:

AQ suited and unsuited?
AJ suited and unsuited?

AQs ill play from all positions
AQo/AJs/AJo ill drop in the first 3 spots, but I will raise with them in middle-late..

AQo ill start raising in MP, AJs/AJo, ill only raise from late

I raise AQ from any position...

AJ from MP1+... But if conditions a favorable I will play it as AQ...

KJ

both hands-
most of the time - limp from early position 60%
sometimes- depending on my image, i'll raise either hand from early position. 35%

not very often- i'll fold AQ hand from early position. 3%
sometimes- i'll fold AJ from early position, depending on table and table image. 10%

Depends. But I almost never open-fold AQ/AJ. The only FR game I play has a NoMax. buy-in, though. So, I'm almost always open-raising. I'm more likely to open-limp AQs than AJo, though.

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm a little surprised to see that everyone is willing to play these hands from any position. I've noticed recently that anytime I try and play either AQ or AJ from EP, I usually wind up losing a lot of chips when the flop comes Axx. I find that too many people will just call PF with a better A.