AA

[szwajar1979]

Do having two pre-flop AA cards always play for everything??? What are your ways of playing “AA”

 

[Kenzie 96]

Best starting hand in holdem, true, guaranteed winner, not so much. I would caution against using the words always & never in your poker thinking. Game decisions are seldom that clear.

 

[Natox]

In general you try to play for as much as you can with this hand (how big or even trapping, depends on experience and of course your style). How to do that correctly in specific situation is not always easy. Its the strongest starting hand, but not a money printer. A common amateur mistake is to overplay them or generally wait for these kind of hands. They end up hoping or beeing frustrated about the outcome, which has his mathematical authorization. I guess the best situation is about beeing favoured 87%. So if you win the pot with AA, you already run about average. So i highly recommend taking losses as part of the game. They will come frequently, but dont get shy or agraid and try to play them to their best.

 

[Stringy]

99% of the time I'm going all in

 

[dompoker]

Sometimes I throw myself to the line so as not to allow them to set up the game, however there is always someone who pays, and so they beat me with low cards.

 

[Uncloggie]

Just fold them and weep

 

[ML51450]

Push all-in preflop because I have the advantage

 

[joango123456789]

It depends on stack sizes. Pushing all in with 200BB is poinless. You can be beaten by any two cards someone alse is holding. Or you can just take the blinds. Raise big and try to get value postflop or lay your hand down if you feel your'r beaten. The only time I would got all in preflop is when I'm reraised.

 

[Phoenix Wright]

No. It's the best possible hand preflop, but AA could become drastically worse post-flop based on certain runouts and lots of betting. Pocket Aces is still only One Pair, so there's many times you'll want to fold AA. If we are only talking about preflop, then even here, there might be rare cases where folding AA is correct. Namely ICM implications or a satellite event where on the bubble and only advancing matters, but there's no benefit of first or last to advance.

 

[kenmingquan]

No. It's the best possible hand preflop, but AA could become drastically worse post-flop based on certain runouts and lots of betting. Pocket Aces is still only One Pair, so there's many times you'll want to fold AA. If we are only talking about preflop, then even here, there might be rare cases where folding AA is correct. Namely ICM implications or a satellite event where on the bubble and only advancing matters, but there's no benefit of first or last to advance.

I just played a hand with Aces , I raised 2bbs , BTN reraised to 7bbs, 3 players went all in, I make my call as well. At the end 4 players including me with around 160bbs, two players has AJo, flop came K J T, turn is an 8, river Queen. Two players won the hand, my Aces has a chance to triple up but at the end river came a queen. That’s poker

 

[SPANKYSN]

Push all-in preflop because I have the advantage

Exactly…this is the one time that you know for sure that you have the best hand…post flop, things can change…as a previous post says, 99% of the time all in…as already mentioned in prior posts, if you are on the bubble or you only need to finish in the top 10, let’s say to get a satellite ticket, then that might be the time to make a good raise, without going all in.

 

[ML51450]

Best hand preflop