AAChipMagnet wrote:
ALL-IN! OK OK, the best way I've found yet to play them is slow call. Truthfully, if you raise pre-flop you are letting your opponents know you have a pair or good suited cards at least. When you check and call, you disguise the fact that you have a top pair and if the flop/turn/river reveal no str8 or flush draws, you are PROBABLY good. If someone bets out on a King or something, you may be able to put them on that pair and know you have them. If the board pairs it is actually good for you most of the time as you would have top two pair. One caveat here. BE AWARE of three and four of a kind and full house possibilities. Often if you get a pair, someone else will too so be careful out there. Of course people will say I'm crazy to slow play those Aces but think about the odds. Probably 75% of people will fold if you go all-in. So you get blinds, that's probably it. If you raise pre-flop you will likely get called and could lose on the flop, throwing away good chips. Also, the odds are great pre-flop with Aces but inevitably if you run into a calling station or chasers, which there are alot of on FTP anyway, those 25% of people that hold on will probably win a high percentage of the time as two pair and up are much more common winning hands than just a measly pair, no matter how good of a pair it is. To be honest though, I still will push at certain times during a tourney with this hand, even all-in, but usually only when I know I will have a limited amount of opponents or if I haven't been seeing anything good at all for awhile and my chips are low.
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