AA pre-flop: always all-in?

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If you receive preflop AAs, do you always go all in or does it always depend completely on the situation or the rival? 🗯📋
 
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Regardless of your hand, always play according to your opponent's style. Against a player who calls too much, I bet 10x or more—or even go all-in—whereas against an aggressive player, I bet 2x, and they will almost certainly 3-bet.
 
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I'd never say always. Aces are the best starting hand, but poker is all about context. Stack sizes, positions, tournament stage, and the opponent all matter. Most of the time I'm happy to get the money in, but there are definitely spots where a smaller raise or trap makes more sense than just jamming preflop.
 
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The only time I would initiate an all in w/AA preflop during a tourney would be if that is what was demanded by the size of my stack, or an opponent(s) initiated it.
 
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Th3Brodigy said:
If you receive preflop AAs, do you always go all in or does it always depend completely on the situation or the rival? 🗯📋
i just lose for 2 pairs with AA :cry:
when i all in, no one call
when i raise, i lost with bad luck 😭
 
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Stack depth. Hel-lo??
 
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To me, yes.
Definitely.
Go for the gold
God bless
 
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RALF_AK said:
Independientemente de tu mano, juega siempre según el estilo de tu oponente. Contra un jugador que iguala demasiado, apuesto 10 veces o más, o incluso voy all-in; mientras que contra un jugador agresivo, apuesto 2 veces, y casi con seguridad hará una tercera apue
Information that is worth gold 🤑

Nameless14 said:
Nunca diría que siempre. Los ases son la mejor mano inicial, pero en el póker todo depende del contexto. El tamaño de las pilas de fichas, la posición, la etapa del torneo y el oponente son factores importantes. La mayoría de las veces me alegra entrar en la mesa, pero sin duda hay situaciones en las que una subida menor o una trampa tienen más sentido que simplemente apostar todo antes del flop.
You're very right 🤔 sometimes you set yourself up as a trap

GarotoMaroto said:
Para mí, sí.
Definitivamente.
Ve a por el oro
Dios los bendiga
Security is a long time ago, I've checked

Emily Trott said:
La única vez que iniciaría un all-in con AA preflop durante un torneo sería si eso fuera lo que exigiera el tamaño de mi pila de fichas, o si un oponente (o oponentes) lo iniciara.
My tournament totally changes the context and there I agree with you the size of the battery a long time ago...

kecoakbogor said:
Acabo de perder por 2 pares con AA:llorar:
Cuando apuesto todo, nadie llama
Cuando subí, perdí por mala suerte 😭
The bad streak sometimes weighs +
 
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With AA the best play is nearly always to put in a raise preflop, but not nessesarely all-in. Even if you are as short as 20-25BB, jamming over a min-raise will give you more fold equity, that you want, so the better play is generally to 3-bet small to around 5BB. Or you can even elect to just call as a trap. If you are deeper like 40-50BB, AA is always a 3-bet, but if you are in position, you can sometimes elect to not put in a 4-bet and let the opponent hang himself postflop.

The key with AA is to not voluntarely create tricky postflop situations, where you are playing with a deep stack to pot ratio and perhaps even multiway. But if you can see a flop with a stack to pot ratio of no more than 3-4 against a single opponent, then AA is usually extremely easy to play, since you basically just get it in on any but the worst runouts.
 
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fundiver199 said:
Con AA, la mejor jugada casi siempre es subir la apuesta preflop, pero no necesariamente ir all-in. Incluso si tienes tan solo 20-25BB, ir all-in después de una subida mínima te dará más posibilidades de fold, que es lo que buscas, así que la mejor jugada suele ser hacer una 3-bet pequeña, hasta alrededor de 5BB. O incluso puedes optar por simplemente igualar como trampa. Si tienes más fichas, como 40-50BB, AA siempre es una 3-bet, pero si estás en posición, a veces puedes optar por no hacer una 4-bet y dejar que el oponente se hunda solo postflop.

La clave con AA es no crear voluntariamente situaciones postflop complicadas, donde juegas con una gran proporción de fichas respecto al bote y quizás incluso con varios oponentes. Pero si ves un flop con una proporción de fichas respecto al bote de no más de 3-4 contra un solo oponente, entonces AA suele ser extremadamente fácil de jugar, ya que básicamente entras con todas tus fichas salvo en las peores cartas comunitarias.
an explanation as clear as H2O... 👍🏼📋
 
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It completely depends on the situation, is it a tournament? Is it cash? If it's a tournament, do you have few chips? Is he someone aggressive? If it's cash, they're almost the same questions, at least that's what I do, I like to summarize, but I summarize more in tournaments than in cash, although it also depends on the time of the tournament and how many chips he has, and how many chips I have
 
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I always like to call an all-in if it's heads-up; there's always the risk of getting knocked out, but I'd rather go out that way than lose while playing.
 
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Personally, I don't think shoving AA pre-flop blind is always the best choice, especially in deep-stacked cash games. While it definitely protects your equity and prevents you from getting cracked by random hands post-flop, it also forces your opponents to fold everything except KK or QQ. In tournaments, if you are short-stacked (under 15-20 BBs), it’s an absolute no-brainer to go all-in. But when you have 100+ BBs, I prefer a standard 3-bet or 4-bet.
 
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If there is 4 others already in the hand, I don't do a snap all in with AA. Because more than likely I have 4 opponents with a pocket pair. So 4 to 1 odds my card does not show up and one of their cards showing up gives them 3 of a kind.
 
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