Pocket Aces for the Rest of Your Life....

[skitzo444]

Would you want pocket AA for the rest of your life. Would you want that yes/no and reasons.

I think it would be good if I wanted to make money but there would be no thrill to the game anymore.

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[mosdef]

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Would you want pocket AA for the rest of your life. Would you want that yes/no and reasons.

I think it would be good if I wanted to make money but there would be no thrill to the game anymore.

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also, you would get tossed from every game you ever played, so it would be a short lived experience.

anyway, to answer your hypothetical, i would be happy taking the infinite money and using it to fund other exciting things, without the need to budget, etc. but then again, maybe i wouldn't enjoy ANYTHING if i had infinite resources. maybe part of the fun of everything we do is that we know we earned the right to do with hard work anyway.

i turn down your offer. i'm happy with my life as it is. i wouldn't risk it. thanks for asking though.

Always having AA might be interesting and fun for a while, but without the gambling aspect of the game, the tactics, etc., I think I'd take up full-time fishing. From a pier. With a cane pole. And worms. And after a day of this I'd jump off the pier. BTW, I can't swim.


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...i turn down your offer. i'm happy with my life as it is. i wouldn't risk it. thanks for asking though.


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One of the most insightful, honest answers I've ever read. Thank you.

[dtbog]

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Would you want pocket AA for the rest of your life. Would you want that yes/no and reasons.

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I think the more interesting question is how you would play the aces.

Personally, I'd limp about 35% of the time and then fold on all remotely scary boards.. and of course, raise 10% of the time and usually try to pick up the pot on the flop or the turn without a showdown.

I think people would still catch on pretty quickly. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[A_C_Slater]

I would just jump from online NL table to online NL table.

Or I would join a massive MTT and just push all in everyhand. What are they gonna do about it? Even if I do get called and lose I'm still gonna have an M of 100+ after all the early all ins I'm gonna win.

[fatdave]

You would HAVE to push all-in preflop on every hand, because if everybody knows you have aces, they can call with any two, and then push every flop where pocket aces doesn't flop the nuts. Of course, if you win enough early that calling these post-flop all-ins won't cripple you, you'd probably call anyway.

Stolen from Matt Matros book... a theory by Chris Ferguson I believe.

[A_Junglen]

If your trying "not to be caught"...you can always FOLD, lol.

As for aces every hand of my life....I'd say no. It would take away practically every reason I play and love this game.

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Would you want pocket AA for the rest of your life. Would you want that yes/no and reasons.

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This question makes no sense without context.

If everyone forgot that I had pocket AA immediately after every hand, would I want pocket AA every hand? Hell yeah. It might make for boring poker (although there are a variety of things that can still happen in a hand), but I'd get my excitement in other ways (mainly the luxury suites at the top Vegas casinos).

But if anyone knew I was continually getting pocket AA, that would suck, because the games would dry up, as in I would sit down at a table and everyone else would get up, and I'd be kicked off the site or out of the casino.

[somapopper]

I would happily play five minutes of holdem every day to pay for the necessities, like diamond encrusted boxer shorts and my hot tub full of benjamins.

I would then cry a single tear for holdem and play much more interesting games like 27td for the rest of my life.

[newhizzle]

yes, and if i can find people to play with me ill be a very rich man, even if it just means constanly stealing the blinds

Nobody would play with you for the rest of your life. So it sounds like negative EV

[jba]

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I would just jump from online NL table to online NL table.

Or I would join a massive MTT and just push all in everyhand. What are they gonna do about it? Even if I do get called and lose I'm still gonna have an M of 100+ after all the early all ins I'm gonna win.

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nice tourney idea.

hit and run huge NL cash games is the way to go

[vexvelour]

I'd want to shoot myself in the face if I got pocket A's for the rest of my life.

[jacksup]

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You would HAVE to push all-in preflop on every hand, because if everybody knows you have aces, they can call with any two, and then push every flop where pocket aces doesn't flop the nuts.

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That would be a pretty easy strategy to exploit.

The random hand calls preflop IF the stacks are deep enough so that he can makes a big overbet on the flop, and still have plenty of chips left in his stack. The smaller the stack sizes, the fewer hands that can call the exposed AA preflop (unless of course the stack is so small that AA is all-in preflop and the opponent is priced in to call).

Matt

[SomethingClever]

How about expanding the question.

All you get are pocket pairs, randomly selected from 22-AA.

Does this make it more appealing?

[GoCubsGo]

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How about expanding the question.

All you get are pocket pairs, randomly selected from 22-AA.

Does this make it more appealing?

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Much more appealing. You could probably play about 50 hands at a table without anyone getting too suspicious, because you could just fold any underpairs that don't hit a set. You'd probably have to fold 66-22 so you didn't look like too much of a fish. PP are my favorite hands but after a while it would get a little old. But if I had to choose between poker as a hobby or poker as a career, I'm gonna pick it as a career. It can fund other hobbies. (Think hookers)

[Klepton]

so you're saying that instead of having a 2.87bb/100 i'm going to have a 2.87bb/hand?

i'll take it.

[stigmata]

I would take it. Play 1 or 2 hours a day. Live a luxurious life.

It would (at first) make for some interesting strategy decisions -- I think I would end up playing like this.

Play high-stakes NL for a few orbits before changing table/account/site.

"bluff" limp/fold alot, just so that people don't get too supicous. Even mix it up with raising/folding on scary boards.

Essentially, wait till a big hand breaks out preflop and then get all your chips in the middle. Or play a big hand postflop when you are pretty sure you are ahead.

Essentially you would just wait for the very profitable hands to showdown your aces. Constantly winning small pots would actually be counter-productive, I fear.

[shant]

It would be awesome to play live and act surprised every single time at showdown, like "OH MY GOD POCKET ACES AGAIN!"

Also, play in only a thong so no one can accuse you of cheating. You'd make some people's heads at Commerce explode.

[Conor]

lol nh

What a boring game it would have been.

Yes and why not?

[TripleH68]

Yes. I like money. And I like spending money.

[SNOWBALL138]

This is the stupidest post I've read outside of the WPT forum. Responding to this post makes me feel stupid.

[midget23]

i'd stand at the rail smoking a cigarrette and just announce that i'm all in blind until i quadruple up or bust.

Would anyone play with you? Youd have to make multiple internet accounts and basically pocket ace hit multiple tables. Youd make tons of money for a little while, but it basically woudl kill poker for you.

So the choice really is:

1)Almost always winning easily with poker
2)Still playing poker

[Girchuck]

I'd prefer a much more modest proposition:

How about knowing your opponents' cards once an orbit.

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This is the stupidest post I've read outside of the WPT forum. Responding to this post makes me feel stupid.

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i agree, I'm not playing to enjoy myself, I'm playing to rake in the coin. There's other things in life that are much more fun than sitting in front of the comp. I'd take the aces all day, every day. Then pay some people to jump onto the high stakes NL ring and push every time. I'm happy to be paying these people $25/hr to rake in $30 of blinds every 20 secs.

In short, this question is retarded and anyone who refuses the offer doesn't play to win.

I just had pocket aces 5 times in 10 min and lost all 5.
I'll pick AKs Alex /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[The Truth]

Are you serious. If you say no, I think you are selfish.


-blake

now that the laws of probability no longer apply, do my bullets lose every time also?