The aces they are the strongest pair but not necessarily the strongest hand. When the flop is a dry flop you can be aggressive with the aces, but when stronger combinations occur like straights, flushes, fulls, etc, you must be more careful!
M13A13 said:
Wow! If my brain thought in this manner ^ I would do absolutely everything possible to NEVER play this game again! Fortunately it doesn't and I'm aware that IF I CHOOSE to get better at the game, my results will speak for themselves. I suppose it also helps when you personally know players who are managing to support their family by playing online poker and have been doing so for over a decade.
Shoving all in with AA is an obvious option if you are in preflop. However, after the flop it is risky. If you intend to go all in with AA, always do it preflop. It is better to clear the table and only take the blinds than to take a bad beat for letting the villain see the flop for free.
Think of poker as paper, scissors, rock. The paper is your AA and it can lose to either a big stack with the Rocks ( chips) calling with a weak hand but sucking out, or a desperate low stack doing the same.
Paper is the least important, you will get a good hand so infrequently, and as you experienced that good hand can be beaten.
It is better to find the weak players and use the scissors, that is bluff them out of pots.
The scissors are best used from cut-off and button positions.
Paper is the least important, you will get a good hand so infrequently, and as you experienced that good hand can be beaten.
It is better to find the weak players and use the scissors, that is bluff them out of pots.
The scissors are best used from cut-off and button positions.
What was the situation? What position, what game, how many BB. With AA why would you push all in pre unless you are low stacked late?
When people push all in pre early in games, I always think they are weak because if you have a strong hand you would want to get as many callers as possible. A lot of people would probably put you on a small pair or AJ AQ etc a hand you don’t want to see a flop just race with; Therefore other pairs suited connectors will call you to race. I try not to risk my whole stack unless I really have to and feel sure I’m winning, Pre flop it’s impossible to know that.
AA is a strong hand if played correctly. Don’t marry every pair, see what happens; be aware what you are representing when you bet from different positions. I lost with AA when I pot bet pre, hit a A on flop, pot bet the whole way to someone who called me with 58 off and hit. Straight on the river. Some people just don’t believe anything and are idiots. Be aware that it’s not unbeatable.
When people push all in pre early in games, I always think they are weak because if you have a strong hand you would want to get as many callers as possible. A lot of people would probably put you on a small pair or AJ AQ etc a hand you don’t want to see a flop just race with; Therefore other pairs suited connectors will call you to race. I try not to risk my whole stack unless I really have to and feel sure I’m winning, Pre flop it’s impossible to know that.
AA is a strong hand if played correctly. Don’t marry every pair, see what happens; be aware what you are representing when you bet from different positions. I lost with AA when I pot bet pre, hit a A on flop, pot bet the whole way to someone who called me with 58 off and hit. Straight on the river. Some people just don’t believe anything and are idiots. Be aware that it’s not unbeatable.
That’s a bit of a leap. If a player is losing maybe he needs to reassess his strategy, practice more, come here and get some tips, Play free games - use tools like the wizz function on party or the PokerStars school. No one starts out winning everything, playing more could be looked at as practice and has nothing to do with having a gambling problem. If the person is playing small stakes 1c/2c cash or micro games and losing pennies, how is that a gambling problem? Gambling is a problem when it is beyond your means, interfering with you life and relationships and taking all of your time and money. And that is different for everyone. A millionaire playing $10 games and loosing 10 in a row isn’t a financial issue to him but for a low income person it would be.enno said:
People come here to genuinely learn, Let’s not throw around accusations of addictions because they lost some hands.
Having a bad run? Do you realise how that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever? Really think about it. You suggest the poker sites are in some way cheating. So what would be the benefit of that. They are favouring one player over you? What benefits would they get from that? The poker sites make their money from the rake. They don’t care who wins the game whether it’s you or the guy who bad beat you. It makes no difference to them at all.M13A13 said:
Do you know how much money these big sites make and how much their reputation depends on them being secure and doing everything in their power to prevent any security issues or bots from being in games. However, let’s for a second go with there being a bot on your table (or AI player). They are not able to chose their cards, or what’s dealt. The advantage they would have is knowing all the statistics, using HUD to have as much info on each player and how they play hands. They aren’t able to MAKE you lose with AA. They aren’t hacking the software. Do you know how much random data is fed into the software to generate the hands? It’s impossible to affect that. If someone was breaching the software it wouldn’t take long for them to realise and put it right. Their whole reputation is based on the security and integrity of their site and games.
Online you are playing so many more hands than you would live and it feels like you have more bad beats but you really don’t, If you compared hand for hand you’d see the same probabilities of hands being dealt, connecting, losing, winning.
You need to take each hand on its own. Once it’s played forget it. Don’t play the next one based upon your emotions, don’t hold a grudge against a player that bad beat you or called you light, Analyse why they did it. Did you play the hand in the right way? If so it was unlucky it happens. Did they make a stupid call that paid off this time? If so know that they got lucky; but they won’t always hold that luck and you need more than luck.
When I loose big hands; as long as I can say I played it right, based on where I was what came off etc, then I’m good. You can’t win them all but you can learn from all those situations, learn about your opposition, use it to win your money back, but most importantly don’t be in a position where you are risking your whole stack unless it’s absolutely necessary. No one needs to throw 50bb into a 3bb pot.
I think if he was referring to live poker I could see your point; but it appears he’s on a tilt and it is all because the poker site is fixing the games for no reason whatsoever other than then don’t like his username maybe? 🤔 😃.enno said:
Maybe this chap should play a few live games to see that bad beats happen there too; Not as often due to people having to look you in the face, and because the buy ins are usually higher in live games, the games are slower and people want to stay in, because they can’t just jump into another game straight away. I just wish people would think sometimes.
It just got a bit heavy on a thread I assume is from an inexperienced player; There are a number of sarcastic comments which you don’t usually see on here. Didn’t want the original poster getting all depressed 🤣