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1- If you go position, smooth call if you are the only caller and try to milk him on flop?
2- You haven't got position. YOu raise, get re-raise, now you?
a- raise again?
b- go all in because 3 re-raise to not all-in screams AA?
c- smooth call and check raise the flop? ( Or other thing) ?
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05-18-2005 #1Chaser
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AA Preflop
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05-18-2005 #2Fish
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I think the course of action depends a lot on the situation. I used to like slow-playing aces but now that I mainly play NL tournaments, I usually make sure I am the last person to bet, so if there is a raising war, it will usually end up where I am all-in with my hope being that everyone will fold and I will collect all those raises or that there is one caller I have him dominated.
As a matter of fact, the other day I was in a freeroll tourney and there were 25 players left out of 1166. My stack was about medium. I was dealt KK and got into a raising war which left me all-in against one other guy who had AA. Bye-bye Mike but that's exactly what I would have done if I was the other guy with AA.
So I guess my overall opinion is that with AA, you don't necessarily want to raise too much if you are the first raiser but I am certainly happy when somebody reraises me when I have pocket rockets. That is when poker is fun. When you have the best starting hand, you want to play for the most chips, right? The only time it becomes a bummer is when there are multiple callers and the value of the AA goes down because the chance of being outdrawn is greater.Last edited by Ottawa Mike; 05-18-2005 at 09:24 AM.
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05-18-2005 #3River Rat
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With AA, I try to adjust my bet so that I will see a flop with one caller. AA is a good starting hand, but does not have much chance to improve after the flop. Thus, I really don't want to enter a flop with a bunch of callers because that increases the odds of being outdrawn by the time all the cards get dealt. In this regard, keep in mind that AA is only about 60/40 preflop favorite to the field in a 4-player flop and a 45/55 preflop dog to the field in a 5-player flop.
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05-18-2005 #4change my title babo
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If I'm up against a big PP or AK why not push preflop? He's calling anyways.
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05-18-2005 #5PokerForums God
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1. I almost never slow play AA at a full table.
2. All-in.
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05-18-2005 #6Fish
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I think that's what I said but you did it in 12 words.
Originally Posted by Beavis68
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05-18-2005 #7River Rat
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I agree with 1, but 2 doesn't necessarily follow. If you move all-in -- and assuming that you have a sufficiently large stack and no one yet has shown any preflop strength -- everyone is likely to fold, leaving you with a very small pot, and perhaps just the blinds. You may as well have 7-2 as your hole cards. I'm not suggesting that you slow play AA, but the trick is to calibrate your bet so that you limit the number of callers -- hopefully to just 1 -- but so that you get some action. Originally Posted by Beavis68
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05-18-2005 #8PokerForums God
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Raising war... hmmm... that means BIG pot... checking ToP.... biggest crieteria to slowplay.. the pot is not yet big.... nope, raise it.
You always play this hand aggressive PF. From EP, you might go for the Limp/raise, but the really gives away the strength of your hand. And you might as well bet in the dark on the flop, cause Even with
, a flop of 
requires an opening bet. From LP, raise it up, no questions, especially with what is starting to look like a familt pot.
NL... raising war? That reraise says only one thing to you, hes come to fight and hes calling, so push.Marm is back, maybe. Been off for 3 years. Rusty as Hell.
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05-18-2005 #9Chaser
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But do you guys agree that if you re-reraise not all-in, it screams AA ?
If you go all-in right aways, it's seem fishy, and you get more caller.
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05-18-2005 #10change my title babo
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It doesn't scream AA anymore than an other re-reraise does.
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