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 Amazing, tang, 25. Mar 2003 09:41 | ||
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| I find that pocket Aces has become a hand in which no raise pre-flop is widely used. I cannot believe how many times I have seen this. Especially at short 5/10 or 3/6 (Internet), I have found this to be true and I wonder why ? Raising on short table - nobody is giving you aces anyway. No raise and you let the blinds come in. I feel this is a losing approach, I'm sure that arguement is to keep people in and your aces will hold up % of the time but the risk /reward is not equal. I'll take my chances and not slow play my aces and guarantee more profit than not. Just curious if it's just my imagination. | ||
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| Re: Amazing, stdioh, 25. Mar 2003 10:26 | ||
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| on 25. Mar 2003 09:41 tang wrote: > I find that pocket Aces has become a hand in which no raise pre-flop is widely > used. I cannot believe how many times I have seen this. > > Especially at short 5/10 or 3/6 (Internet), I have found this to be true and I > wonder why ? > > Raising on short table - nobody is giving you aces anyway. No raise and you > let the blinds come in. I feel this is a losing approach, I'm sure that > arguement is to keep people in and your aces will hold up % of the time but the > risk /reward is not equal. I'll take my chances and not slow play my aces and > guarantee more profit than not. > > Just curious if it's just my imagination. IMHO, there are times to slowplay pocket aces preflop, but most times a raise is warranted. The idea is this: you want to win as much money as possible. Now if you have AQ and you steal the blinds, great. You've made .75 of a big bet and that's almost an hour's work out of the way. If you have aces though, they are worth so much more than that, so if you are at a very tight table, you want to limp and play against the blinds, hoping that they will catch enough of a piece of the flop to play you. Likewise, you want to induce other limpers. I would only do this if I'm at a table where most hands have 3 or possibly 4 players seeing the flop on most hands and the blinds are taken back very often. If I'm at a standard loose passive table, then of course a raise is important. Get money in the pot while you have the best of it and thin the field, as well as isolate against very good hands and knock out drawing hands. Likewise, slowplaying AA is important shorthanded. If you're playing a freeze out and you're shorthanded, by all means play your aces slow - your single opponent needs to improve his hand dramatically to beat you. By this token, if you've got aces on the puck and it is folded to you, and the blinds are not all that clever (or they should figure out why you're not stealing and then you should raise) then a limp can induce them to raise at least to play against you on the flop when you have the best of it. Finally, using aces for a limp reraise is an effective way to play them. If you're at a very agressive table or playing with a maniac, this is often the way to play your aces. You limp and the maniac (maybe he just heard about dead money) raises, so now you get to reraise (we're assuming that you're sitting to his right and he has position on you) and let the maniac cap it. Now you've roped everybody in for 4 bets. Likewise, if you've got aces and you are to the left of the maniac, a cold call can be extremely powerful. You're telling the rest of the table that you have a hand and are disrespecting the maniac, inducing an isolation raise from any player with a raising hand. Now you might get the maniac capping it preflop for you and you've managed to have the preflop capped without revealing your strength at all. Now when the maniac and another player get heavilly into a raising war (say overpair against a flush draw or top pair good kicker against top pair lousy kicker), you can hang in there and punish them both when neither improve and you take the whole pot that you looked like you were drawing to. Notwithstanding, if you're not sure what to do with aces, raise them. | ||
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