pocket AA question

Especially with antes in play I would always shove AA with <10bb left. It looks also suspicious if you always shove with other hands and you min raise with AA when you have a <10bb stack.

Cheers,
SDK1987

Okay - argument is over now :-) Thank you very much

Originally posted by SDK1987
Especially with antes in play I would always shove AA with <10bb left. It looks also suspicious if you always shove with other hands and you min raise with AA when you have a <10bb stack.

Cheers,
SDK1987

is a nice advice, but is not stone wrote, there is some tables in which is better do something different, for example, u can lure people to hand if people just calls a lot of hands, if is true that sometimes it will be against you because they will hit after the flop better hands, but in general u will be ahead of his range often, if you play with tight players is better just shove it because they will see it very suspicious and will fold if you try just to open raise it, all will depend of the kind of players in the table and your position in the hand.

When i mean open raise it, is a size that u get almost all in, like 4 or 5 bbs, if the table is loose they will call u with worst hands and they will stack you light

Its better to get other players in the hand than playing all in, in very often cases you will lose hand if you dont get one more A ...

but it's still worth that

Originally posted by jvivas1990

Originally posted by SDK1987
Especially with antes in play I would always shove AA with <10bb left. It looks also suspicious if you always shove with other hands and you min raise with AA when you have a <10bb stack.

Cheers,
SDK1987

is a nice advice, but is not stone wrote, there is some tables in which is better do something different, for example, u can lure people to hand if people just calls a lot of hands, if is true that sometimes it will be against you because they will hit after the flop better hands, but in general u will be ahead of his range often, if you play with tight players is better just shove it because they will see it very suspicious and will fold if you try just to open raise it, all will depend of the kind of players in the table and your position in the hand.

When i mean open raise it, is a size that u get almost all in, like 4 or 5 bbs, if the table is loose they will call u with worst hands and they will stack you light

Could be, but you don't want to get in tough multi way spots with AA with only a few chips behind.

It really depends what kind of players are at your table. If its 9max and players are deep and raising usually i would limp to get a raise and push. If its sb vs bb i would also quite often limp because if they have over 25+bb they often shove in that kind of situation with 80% hands

Several factors imply, however, it is both right to go allin straight and to risk attracting more players in order to double. Both are valid options. The question is how the table was playing, who your opponents are and how you were playing yourself. As I said, it depends on thousands of factors. There is no basic rule for how to play a specific hand type. Poker is a dynamic and people game.