Bet AA preflop to reduce the number of callers?

[ggano]

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The are limping in with garbage or low ev hands trying to hit big and take advantage of the implied odds,

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Yes.

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but you refuse to pay them off.

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No. Instead, you refuse to let them limp.

There are 2 ways to reduce the implied odds that your opponents are getting against you. One is to refuse to pay them off, but that's not easy to do. Are they pushing hard with a set or a flush, or are they pushing hard with TPTK or a good draw? You certainly can fold aces postflop but man it's difficult to know when to do so, probably even for the top pros.

The other way to reduce implied odds is to make people pay preflop, and that's way easier. Your goal is to make people put their money in before they know if the flop hits them or not. The whole idea of implied odds is that they can keep going with the hand if the board helps them, or fold (and save their money) if it doesn't. So you need to make them pay before they can make that decision, and that's by getting the money in preflop.