Re: Live tourny about 4hrs. ago
Your goal when playing AA is not to get a pre-flop call no matter how small, it is to get as much money in the pot as possible, especially pre-flop. The ideal situation is getting re-raised, not called. If Villain is a decent player, then he should know that if you make a real bet, he needs to re-raise or fold. Even with AA, you are better off having him fold than seeing a cheap flop when he holds a lot of speculative hands that he will not take past the flop unless he improves to better than one pair. You want action from a hand like KQ, but that can call or re-raise a standard raise. Villain might fold 86s to a standard raise, but that is preferable to showing him a cheap flop.
What really, really does not make sense is showing Villain a cheap flop and then immediately looking for excuses to slow down or fold with AA. You let him take a flop because you wanted to play a big pot with him. What did you expect him to do when he got a piece, check-call you all the way? Now that he's shown some interest, you have to build the pot. You have to raise his lead and call a push. There is no folding here.
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