Is this a good EV play with AA?

[AC-Cobra]

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What if it's the same situation, except you're at the main event.

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This is a very poor way of looking at things. If Im playing the ME, Im gonna hopefully play it like any other tournament with the adjustment that a lot of players are very very bad (from what Ive heard). You also have deepstacks in the ME so the situation would be entirely different.

[ssnyc]

hard to conceive of this happening in the ME...I guess fold QQ and call with KK/AA only...hard to say cause it's a tiny bit more than my normal limit

[tomek322]

Isn't the main event first level like, 25/25? with hour long levels? (not sure of the exact number so don't flame)

That would be 400 BB or 200 if it's 25/50.

I think I'm mucking everything in the BB except AA. In the given example it's only 75 BB and 10minute levels. So not quite the same.

[timmay28]

Yeah, I know the stacks are much bigger, I meant same situation as in it's early, a bunch of guys limp and button moves all in. I think I'd fold QQ, but it's easier said than done [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[tomek322]

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Yeah, I know the stacks are much bigger, I meant same situation as in it's early, a bunch of guys limp and button moves all in. I think I'd fold QQ, but it's easier said than done [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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The stack sizes and tournament structure are a big part of the "situation" not just the betting sequence.

[timmay28]

Of course.

[KneeCo]

surprised at the replies. I think you're totally losing value here (it's +EV but you're not maximizing your EV, far from it).

I make it about 200.

[AC-Cobra]

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Just raise to 200 here. Like footnbaseball says you shouldnt be concerned with whether this is +EV (it obv is), but maximising our EV an this certainly isnt doing it.

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surprised at the replies. I think you're totally losing value here (it's +EV but you're not maximizing your EV, far from it).

I make it about 200.

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Guess we agree there.

[tomek322]

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surprised at the replies. I think you're totally losing value here (it's +EV but you're not maximizing your EV, far from it).

I make it about 200.

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Not sure of the effectiveness this would have over limps. But I have done this like 5 times over a raise. And suprisingly I have gotten called for about 100BB by AQ, JJ, 66. And folded twice.

[Kyle Flynn]

I was hoping to reel in a donk with a smaller pp. anything 66-99 that maybe limped. Maybe some other non-sense.

Result: all fold, and no flop. = weak +EV