Re: A2 vs AA
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In a lot of games online, a lot of players will only reraise with AA preflop (not a bad gameplan at all, one I stick to fairly rigidly). You must learn to fold to this reraise. It's only cost you $9. You will want to see flops with AK23 sure, but "one more call" syndrome is expensive, and you have to nip it in the bud before it starts, for exactly that reason on the flop. Folding preflop I believe will save you $100 more than it will win you $100 because I guarantee AAxx vs AK23, the AK23 will play the flop worse in the long term. People just never fold A2 "but it's s00ted!". If you want to win a big pot, try not to do it against people with AA.
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My original instinct was to fold preflop since you didn't want to get into a guessing game and guess yourself into a likely quarter against AA2, but looking at the stats I posted, I am not sure. In this hand, every call looks profitable, but against some hands they are pretty thin and your hand doesn't play well postflop in this situation. Most of the time you are going to be chasing a low not knowing if you are getting quartered or not. It will probably greatly increase your variance to make these calls than if you simply fold preflop, and the difficultly of playing postflop probably turns these seemingly small +EV calls into -EV situations for me.
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