Corollary to the perennial "Folding AA preflop" question

[Dr. Strangelove]

I agree this is an extremely rare situation.

[Khern]

Actually I had a friend in a very similar situation. Except that he had JTs.

-John

[primetime32]

How is this an easy call by anyone? Are we presuming that everyone is playing AA, KK or QQ in that spot? personally, i have never seen my opponents hole cards until they turn them over. we can be sure that at least 1 or 2 of them have a monster, but since we have so many callers there is a chance that someone else 77 or 66 or AK of hearts or 78 of diamonds thereby turning your 67 into a dead hand.

I dont have a poker calculator at work, but someone should try to figure the hand out if the players are holding the following hands:
Hand 1: 55
Hand 2: 10-10
Hand 3: 77
Hand 4: AA
Hand 5: AK hearts
Hand 6: QQ
Hand 7: 65 hearts


If there was a way to read your player to know that they all had AA, KK and QQ then its a good call, otherwise its a no brainer fold.

[Spekkio]

Well, let's see.

You stand to win 7x your money.

You have better than a 1 in 6 chance of winning.

You should call, every time, in a cash game.

[fsuplayer]

id much rather have 56s than J10s.

half your straight outs are completely dead with J10.

[Leptyne]

If UTG is all-in and folded to me in BB with AA I think it's insta-call.

Five players all-in to me in the BB with two players yet to act I fold. If I understand the hand, I'm getting 4 1/2 to 1 pot odds to call. Even if I'm last to act and BB and UTG have both called I think it's -EV and I fold. There are not two cards that would justify my calling.

[LuvDemNutz]

A very similar situation happened one time in a live game at a local card club I used to play at.

I think the hands were AK, AK, 99, 77 and 86s.

It was raised around and the guy with 86s tried to steal with a reraise which then set off the all-in fest.

The 77 flopped a set the AK's turned a straight and the 77 rivered a boat to take it down.

It was quite a scene.

[PokerSlut]

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Of course, this would never happen in a live game.

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I've seen very similar situations in live games, on a fairly regular basis.

Although, more often I see a big raise preflop that's called in too many places, and a coordinated flop on the board resulting in the rest of the table moving in on the flop as the pot gets larger and larger.