TripleQ
03-06-2005, 12:45 PM
... to limping with AA.
I generally find myself limping with AA UTG or UTG+1 more often than not. Under ideal circumstances, this usually pays off quite well, or atleast I get all the chips in with a big edge and have a bad beat story. Ideal circumstances being a relative aggressive table, not many unraised pots, players who are paying attention and will fold their raise to a limp reraise. I'd lean towards doing this with a huge and deep stack, hoping to bust a short stack, or with a middling (10-15BB stack) vs a table of big stacks hoping to double up. Short stack (<10BB) I'd probably push, hoping for a caller thinking I was desperate.
However, with an average stack, I'd probably standard 3-4xBB raise because I'm not looking to gamble nor am I looking to pull a low risk bust on someone else.
Just curious what other people's thoughts are with AA UTG or UTG+1 mid tournament. It's a volatile play for me for sure.
I generally find myself limping with AA UTG or UTG+1 more often than not. Under ideal circumstances, this usually pays off quite well, or atleast I get all the chips in with a big edge and have a bad beat story. Ideal circumstances being a relative aggressive table, not many unraised pots, players who are paying attention and will fold their raise to a limp reraise. I'd lean towards doing this with a huge and deep stack, hoping to bust a short stack, or with a middling (10-15BB stack) vs a table of big stacks hoping to double up. Short stack (<10BB) I'd probably push, hoping for a caller thinking I was desperate.
However, with an average stack, I'd probably standard 3-4xBB raise because I'm not looking to gamble nor am I looking to pull a low risk bust on someone else.
Just curious what other people's thoughts are with AA UTG or UTG+1 mid tournament. It's a volatile play for me for sure.