AA in first position...

[krazyace5]

I have gotten AA twice so far in this tourny and both times it was in first position. Once I limp and 3 of us see the flop, all fold to my raise, once I raise(3 bbs) and everyone folds.

How do you all play AA and KK in first position, sucks not getting any action.

[gobboboy]

Make a standard raise and hope you get action. Limping and having 5 people see a flop is the last thing you want.

[Exitonly]

early and middle stages of a tournament i always raise AA preflop, but towards the later stages when everyone gets tight i'll limp sometimes because if someone else decides to enter the pot, they usually do so for a raise.

[Dave D]

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early and middle stages of a tournament i always raise AA preflop, but towards the later stages when everyone gets tight i'll limp sometimes because if someone else decides to enter the pot, they usually do so for a raise.

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yeah, limping UTG early in a tourney is *very* bad, unless you're really really really sure it's gonna get raised back.

[mrh86]

I wish I could find this A-A hand from yesterday. I limped with it in UTG+1 and 7 people saw the flop. I had an overpair to the rainbow flop, but I had to fold to the large bet from the SB, which made me very bitter. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Black Aces 518]

The thing that people do that really sucks is limping, then playing it as the nuts versus 5 opponents in an unraised pot. Awful. If you limp, don't get raised, and you don't flop a set, you are a fool to go broke with it.