These five minefields when playing AA, you may not be able to avoid them

After hours of playing the J5o bad card, you finally waited for the long-awaited nectar: AA.

As the strongest starting hand in Texas Hold'em, AA has an advantage no matter which card type is played before turning. Traditional table theory advocates that once we have the upper hand, we should circle as much money as possible into the pot, and from a mathematical point of view, building a cauldron with AA before flop is never considered a wrong way of playing.

However, getting the strongest hand on the surface of the earth does not mean that you will definitely win a big pot, and what's more, sometimes even winning a small pot can not be guaranteed.

To maximize the value of AA, we must not only know which are the optimal strategies, we must also know where the minefield of playing AA is, and when we know how to avoid the costly mistakes that many people often make with AA, we have the opportunity to use AA to play the maximum value.

Today's article is about the five minefields that everyone must try to avoid when getting AA.

If you can successfully avoid it, you can get the AA in the future and you can squeeze the maximum value from your opponents.

Minefield 1: Slow play before turning over (especially if only one person raises)

In the opening scene of "The King of Gamblers", Teddy KGB won all of Mike McDermot's chips with the AA set, but that is a movie, in the real game, when you get the AA before turning, in most cases, the best way to deal with this hand must be kombat.

When you get AA, the best way to deal with it is generally to make the pot bigger as early as possible, which means that if no one starts you start, if someone starts you are 3-bet, if someone is 3-bet you are 4-bet.

This way, the pot you win with AA will be a bigger average overall.

Minefield #2: Increase the amount of refill before turning

Increasing the number of raises when you get a strong card is a mistake I often see in online and offline poker.

Although the goal of taking AA is to play a large pot, when using this hand to raise, the number should still be the same as other cards in the range of the stake. If you have the same number of raises, it will be difficult for opponents to guess your range.

For example, in a 2/5 knife game, you start the game all night to increase to 15 knives, and then you take AA, and suddenly add 25 knives, and the opponent who is eye-catching will sniff out the danger, and when he sees you increase the amount of stake, he will definitely be alert, so he gives up the cards that he was willing to use to call, or uses the cards that were originally intended to be added to them to call them.

Minefield #3: Multiplayer pot flipped over and blindly hit all down

The way AA is handled in the multi-person pot is different.

The more people in the pot, the more complicated the situation becomes, because:

Compared to facing one opponent, AA's win rate is much lower when facing two or more opponents

The more people in the pot, the higher the chance that the AA will be overtaken in the flop

The pot is half as big as a flop alone, so it's easy to turn into an oversized pot

For these reasons, when in a multiplayer pot, when you find that your opponent is very happy to throw money into the pot, especially in the horror card, you better be prepared to fold.

After all, your relative strength will be much weaker in these situations.

Minefield #4: Play too passively after turning over

The problem is similar to #1's.

After winning a strong flop (which is usually the case when getting AA), in order to get a big pot, in most cases we should try to play fast.

By betting to make the pot bigger, if you pass the card, the power is in the hands of the other party, he may bet, but may not be, in general, the number of times the opponent actively bets, than the number of times he calls you after you bet is much less.

Another advantage of betting is that the opponent's reaction will reveal his hand strength information, such as the opponent's call, you know he should be the hit (unless he is at float), but if you pass the card and the opponent follows the card, in this case the opponent's card information you can't know too much.

One thing to state is that the initiative here refers to the single-handed pot, if it is a multi-player pot, it is more appropriate to play the flop or play passively, and then look at the situation in the transfer or river card play value.

Minefield #5: Overestimated AA's value in the thriller deck

If the flop is a small or medium card, they are generally more favorable to the range of the pre-roll caller, at which point we should play passively with the entire range, including AA.

For example, if you use the AA opening to raise in the UTT position, the big blind call, the flop 654, when you encounter this card face, there will be more dark three, two pairs or even straights in the opponent's range, because you are charging in the UTT position before you turn over, your range is more of some high or large pocket pairs and medium pocket pairs, and the opponent as a front caller, he includes a lot of cards like 44, 87o or 65.

Because the opponent has the advantage of more nut cards in the range (commonly known as the nut card advantage), he can take the opportunity to put pressure on you, so should you still do c-bet?

In this case, it is better to use your AA to follow the card, and then wait for the opportunity to catch the bluff on the next two streets, after all, in this kind of card face, a pair of such cards is not enough to play the value of three streets, so choosing to pass the card will not sacrifice too much value.

Why it is reasonable to say that the flop is used to pass the card with AA, because no matter what the transfer is issued, the AA can always be the top pair, so in the transfer we always have the opportunity to bet with one (or after the opponent passes the card, we will place another bet ourselves). However, if the hand is a TT pocket pair, there are many chances that the transfer card will be blocked.

Although AA is the strongest starting hand, but in the end it is only a pair of hands, although when you get this hand, you will be involuntarily a little excited, but if you encounter two or more pairs of cards, its power immediately drops, so when playing this hand, in addition to avoiding minefields, there are some situations that choose to abandon AA or even wise moves, such as:

01

10,000 buy-in WPT, EPT or WSOP

The first hand in the event

Ten thousand dollars to buy for many people is not a small amount of money, if the first hand of the game you take AA, but there are 3 or more people at the table all in, this situation if you lose AA, no one will say that you are a big tight person. If the opponent is two, the AA's win rate is 64%, and if the number of opponents becomes 5 people, the AA's win rate is 50%. It's okay to use AA to call in this situation, but it's too risky, after all, it's the first hand of the game. After discarding it, you may have a question in your mind, "If I call, what will happen to the result", especially after looking at the card face, the AA can actually hold the situation, you can't let go of this problem. However, AA does have a chance to be overtaken, plus you just spent $10,000 on the table, if the AA does not hold (the probability of occurrence is as high as 50%), then the cost of this call is too expensive!

02

Bonus difference is very large when

This may be questioned and considered undesirable, but if at some point in the game, in a fully down-to-earth pot, losing AA means a chance to get a higher place and win more prize money, it is understandable to abandon AA at such a time.

For example, WSOP main game, there are still three people left, you are the chip king, and the gap with the opponent is so much that even if the short chips are eliminated, your chips are more than the other player at the beginning of the single challenge, plus once you enter the single challenge, the second place can get 2 million more prize money than the third place, one of the two short chips is all down, you take AA, at this time in order to enter the single head, at least take 2 million more bonuses, is it wrong to lose AA?

In most cases, it is a problem to choose to abandon AA before turning over, but there are exceptions to everything, in some specific cases, such as the one mentioned above, abandoning AA is inevitably a bit conservative, but this is a problem of real money, if you care about money more than face, abandoning AA can "rub more" two million, why not enjoy it?

03

Satellite racing bubble period

The purpose of playing satellite competitions is to get high tickets to buy events, the goal of participating in such competitions is to get rewards rather than championships, in this kind of competition, the more people participate, the greater the reward circle, the more tickets are sent, in general, in addition to sending tickets, satellite competitions rarely provide other additional rewards, so the goal of our playing this type of competition is definitely not to win the championship.

Therefore, when in the money circle bubble period, if we encounter all the opponents, we can abandon AA in this situation, and strive to live longer than the short code in the game, there is no need to risk losing a small life when it is only one step away from success, this risk is left to the short code to risk, we only have to sit back and enjoy its achievements, if you are plus size, it is even more unnecessary to go with the short code at this time.

04

Dangerous flop

As mentioned above, AA is just a pair, get it in your heart will be happy, after you can use it to enter the game, the opponent can't play how to go, your card strength has not improved, at this time we use AA to bet or raise the bottom line began to become more and more insufficient. In fact, when the opponent can't play away, your AA is likely to be behind. If the card face is out of A, your card strength is naturally increased, but in that kind of flop is a continuous card or a flush face, AA is dangerous.

When encountering a dangerous card, if the yardage is still quite healthy, and just happens to encounter the opponent's foot fire attack, it is understandable to abandon AA at this time.

When we get AA, the longer we stay in the pot, and the longer the opponent stays in the pot, the more dangerous our AA is, because the opponent can't throw money into the pot for no reason and we have been spending so much. Even if we get AA, we should not be confused by its appearance and lack judgment, or we should make decisions according to the scope like we get other cards, so that we do not blindly make the wrong choice.

Therefore, sometimes it is necessary and necessary to give up AA in the game.