Getting Value from AA First to Act.

[jonnyUCB]

Try noting how much preflop raises are getting respected. work off that information and open up your starting range. People will look you up when you invest a little bit in advertising. Even if you get called the times you aren't holding aces, you can usually get respect on your continuation bets and do some decent postflop maneuvering(if these are the passive tables that haven't been calling your EP raises). If the table is the type to put all EP raisers on AK, then save the trickiness for later.

Sometimes you have to limp and take a risk when you know all you'll do is collect the blinds (never a 100% certainty at 25NL, which is why I'd rather raise em).

[flopking]

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I hate this thinking. AA should be played to bust people, not to steal 5-6 BBs. Just raise UTG, and hope someone has enough hand to reraise you.

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The only person you are going to bust is AK, if the case Ace or a King flops, or some poor chap that holds KK behind you... any player worth a lick will look at a PFR from UTG as indicative of a monster holding and fold accordingly.