AA and JTs

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I think everyone knows that AA is a huge favorite over JTs, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is always the best hand. (note I'm not trying to prove that its not, just trying to clarify what people are thinking when they say JTs is "better")

For example in a deep stack NL game AA can be a big problem for a weakish player because he will often overvalue it post flop and lose a lot of money when he gets out flopped, JTs is rarelt going to be a hand you lose a lot of money with (maybe a flush over flush, or when you lose to a boat) but will often be getting payed off by that player with AA when he hits the hand he was drawing for. That said, its really no different for JTs than any other suited connectot or small pair except that when JTs makes a straight, its much more likely your opponents hit the flop so they will have somethign to pay you off with.

But in the long run the AA is still going to win more money as long as you understand that most of the time its still just 1 pair and not something you want to put your whole stack behind unless you were lucky enough to get a large % of your money in preflop.