AA

[RiverMaynard]

I have started using Poker Tracker and am curious about one of the things I have found. When playing AA how often dose it get cracked if slow played and is it a bad thing to be winning with this pair without showing.

[astroglide]

in the long run it's pretty hard to win less than 75% of the time with aces regardless of how you play them as long as you see a showdown regularly

[Recliner]

I thought you didn't want to slowplay aces because your chances of loosing the hand increases when you let lots of limpers in.

[astroglide]

your chance of losing increases, but so does the pot size

[Songwind]

Don't get sidetracked. The object of poker is not to have better cards than the other guy. The object of poker is to take home the other guy's money.

Which is better? $5 pot 90% of the time, or $20 pot 75% of the time?

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I thought you didn't want to slowplay aces because your chances of loosing the hand increases when you let lots of limpers in.

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[Nanook]

Last night I had AA twice, and I did not get a chance to bet them either slow or aggresive. Both times I was BB and everyone folded to me. Aaaarrrrggggghhhhh!

'nook

[Michael Davis]

Bad game selection.

-Michael

[Spyder]

Your chances of losing go up when you slow play them. However, if you've picked the correct spots to do this, the potential winnings go up more than your potential losings.

I never slow play AA in a loose game.
I never slow play AA when I'm new at the table.
I never slow play AA, first in, in late position.
I never slow play AA if I'm losing, or my image is otherwise poor.

I like to slow play AA when my image is intact, and:

The table has tightend up.
From early position about 1 out of 3 times.
From middle position about 1 out of 6 times.
From anywhere about every other time when I have a loose raisor, or hyper-aggressive player on my left.

Sometimes I'll re-raise, sometimes I'll just call the raise. Depends upon how many folks have called the raise and the liklihood they'll call another, and, the number who have yet to call the first raise and the liklihood they'll call two.

At any rate, that's the way I do it most often...now, let the experts speak [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Spyder

[bdk3clash]

If you never stopped raising with AA preflop you'd probably be playing pretty close to optimally.

You'd probably be better off posting some specific hands that troubled you, since the answer is almost always, "It depends..."

Also, astroglide, I would think you'd win less than 75% of your AA hands if you always played AA passively preflop.

[astroglide]

Also, astroglide, I would think you'd win less than 75% of your AA hands if you always played AA passively preflop

i play aces quite passively preflop and win 78%, over 3bb/hand