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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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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)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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lol nh