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Message: [QUOTE="Irexes, post: 479804, member: 13873"] Absolutely that is the key Storm. Much more often than not I'll raise my aces nice and big or reraise, or even push (open pushing with AA and KK in ep on the first hand of MTTs is a great way to double up). However in late position with an unopened pot, early in the tourney, with few reads it can on occassion be a decent play to raise a smaller amount looking to play things post-flop. This is completely dependant on being able to walk away from it in the face of scary betting and/or a scary board. Now there's a huge difference between open raising and reraising, or raising limper(s) but a reraise preflop pretty much screams AA and KK with the occassional QQ and AK thrown in (I'm talking early stages of $33 and $55 MTTs at lower buy-ins and freerolls the range is much wider and includes all sorts) which decreases the likelihood of stacking someone with AK, AQ, AJ or TT-QQ when they get a flop they like. A call preflop often induces a bet on the flop (either as a continuation bet or because they have TPTK or an overpair) which can then be reraised. Often this reraise is interpreted as a steal-type bet and much action can follow. Of course this can go horribly wrong and they hit two pair or trips and the judgement call is to make the correct size bets relative to the size of your stack so you are still in the game (it should of course be noted that you will still lose on occassion all in preflop with aces). Laying down AA to big action on a KQT type board before the pot gets big should not be that hard (even if AK is a real possibility). I've got a fairly high tolerance for my chipstack going up and down in the first hour of tournies and I am looking for opportunities to stack people to get ahead of the average and build an advantage. I am not at all advocating soft-playing AA as a standard, but as a context specific play with appropriate post-flop caution it's another weapon in the armoury. I started this thread as a bit of jopke to commemorate my third set of back-to-back aces but it's turning into a Hand History thread rather rapidly :) [/QUOTE]

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