Slowplay Quad Aces?

[Torgen]

I was still net positive for the night. I'm not steaming, if that's what you mean--at least not so much that I would play jackpot tables just to try for the $30k I would have won had I stayed on them after it seemed people were playing them like normal.
But it didn't have to be aces--I could have been beat holding quad fives vs. the wheel flush. The point is, though it's a small leak overall, should I have been so gung-ho when the royal possibility was out there and my opponent was representing it so strongly?

[JinX11]

Sorry, Torgen - was replying to stthief's post.

However, I think it's good just to be happy and content whenever you get paid off with a super-strong hand. Focus on other problems...quad aces play themselves.

[sfer]

Easy easy easy fold to the river 3-bet. What range of hands do you put him on?

[bdk3clash]

Good lord, this post went from quads-gloating to bad-beat-in-disguise to results-oriented-thinking to overplaying-quad-aces-is-a-"minor leak."

[Torgen]

If it was only quad aces (or quad anythings) it wouldn't be so bad. If you have the second nuts, and it's a really strong second nuts, (ie. ace high flush vs. stright flush, house vs. bigger house or quads, perhaps even top set vs. extremely unlikely straight or TPTK vs. 72o goofing off and hitting sevens-up), is there a point at which you should suspect that you're beat and just call, or play it aggressively all the way, knowing that usually you're getting paid off? Not that I would play any of those situations necessarily the same way, but overplaying strong hand vs. unlikely stronger hand is certainly a bigger leak than overplaying aces vs. royal draw. (Perhaps still not a big leak in the long run, though.)

[JinX11]

With a subtle "Yankees suck" reference thrown in the middle.

[DeeJ]

UTG has the other 2 Aces and it's a split pot?

[MoreWineII]

If you play quads this badly often, you may as well kiss your bankroll goodbye.

[Torgen]

If so, then what a relief that I posted this hand here, instead of on a forum where people just take cheap shots at new members.

[spamuell]

If so, then what a relief that I posted this hand here, instead of on a forum where people just take cheap shots at new members.

It's not because you're a new member. We've all been new members at some point and posted things which the forum didn't approve of.

It's just that there's a thread on this forum, today, I think my biggest leak is... which talks exactly about how these incredibly infrequent hands really cannot be significant leaks.

And, come on, did you really post this so you would know whether to cap the river next time you flop quad aces on an AAKQJ with a possible royal flush board? Waiting to the turn to raise was fine.