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Getting paid with aces...
Any ideas how to do it early on in a tournament? I got dealt them early on when the blinds were still 10/20 so decided to raise small and everyone still folded. Can anyone offer any advice on how to maximise the pot on this one without losing the hand?
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if you find you are consistently getting no action you may have to tight raising range, so open up the hands you will raise with, especially in later position..
You either raise and they fold
Or you raise and the lad who calls (more than liely with connectors) will hit!
What is wrong with shoving, with blinds this low, if you make it 3times you will get all kinds of small pp's and suited connectors coming in and if you are not capable of throwing your aces you'll probably end up loosing more than you win. Shoving is a good option and a safer one. Yes you might get called by pocket 3's and have a 3 come on the flop which has happened to me, but if you aren't prepared to get your money in when you're 80% to win the hand when are you gonna get your money in?
Salazar
P.S don't just think this works on the micro stakes as i played AA like this in the first level of a $100 freezeout and got called by AJ suited. my double up was very much appreciated.
shoving aces is always +ev though (in the long run/on average). but tbh im not sure i would do it at the start of a tournament with a decent buy in. pocket aces vs top 20% of cards will win "only" 85% of the time. later in the tournament, esp with big blinds its a no brainer shove in most cases.
obv shoving AA is +EV, doesnt mean its not absolutely terrible.
lmao, just raise w/e ur standard is and play them as required.
And obv its the most retarded thing ever, royal_hugo is saying the same thing as you so wat are you on about?
What difference does it make to get a couple of hundred chips at this stage of an mtt? Do you really think that making 200 chips when the blinds are 10-20 is going to make one dot of difference in the overall chance of you cashing or going deep in this tourney?
I tell you what, you make it 4 times with your aces i'll call with my 57 suited and you can talk optimal when you've done half your stack coz you can't fold them.
its better this way.
Just another one of your quality posts hey ladyfingers?
= you're calling and c/f'ing an absolute tonne, and in online tournies (when you're usually never 150BB's /> deep) this is terrible.
Salzaar, you give absolutely terrible, terrible advice.
LMAO, it's taken you 2 days to reply and this is the best you can come up with.
Oh my god, pathetic. If i ever ever take your advice remind me to put a bullet through my head.
ROFL
Seriously though, if you think i'm horrible we should play HU sometime.
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I doubt we'll be hearing much more from salzaar on this topic.
1) An opponent who is willing to take you on and see a flop
2) For that opponent to have enough of a hand to do so
3) For them to get enough of the flop to go all the way with you but not enough to beat you
The main drawback is that we are talking the very early stages of a tournament and unless you have any notes on players from previous tournaments, they are all unknown quantities. You must raise with the hand because you do not want to go multiway to a flop. As to how much to raise it is difficult to say. 3xBB on a table with loose players might get you called in 3 spots, but on a table of rocks will be folded round. Your best hope is to be taking notes on as many players as possible and that way when you start a tournament you have a good chance to have a read on a few players on your table.
Unfortunately as with most poker questions the answer is "it depends"
Play me HU cash any time, you're terrible.
I don't rly play much on this site anymore, software tilt's me.
If you want we can play 4 tables of NL100 or NL50 on the site I frequent at the moment.
If you accept I will private message you the site (its one of the majors not some stupid obscure skin)
If you decline...STF U N00B!