You're a Bunch of Factors

6 hours into a tournament and this happens (im witts22)

I know i didnt raise pre-flop because i didnt want everyone to fold. Cant believe my LUCK


PokerStars Game #39891011797: Tournament #285010173, $3.00+$0.30 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIII (5000/10000) - 2010/02/18 2:09:27 AEST [2010/02/17 10:09:27 ET]
Table '285010173 105' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: stckbrker (551980 in chips)
Seat 3: kair13 (302887 in chips)
Seat 4: Bladman73 (294550 in chips)
Seat 5: JShoe23 (441575 in chips)
Seat 6: ompoker13310 (907592 in chips)
Seat 7: witts22 (113680 in chips)
Seat 8: perrush (173536 in chips)
Seat 9: Danylein (419831 in chips)
stckbrker: posts the ante 1000
kair13: posts the ante 1000
Bladman73: posts the ante 1000
JShoe23: posts the ante 1000
ompoker13310: posts the ante 1000
witts22: posts the ante 1000
perrush: posts the ante 1000
Danylein: posts the ante 1000
Bladman73: posts small blind 5000
JShoe23: posts big blind 10000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to witts22 [As Ac]
ompoker13310: folds
witts22: calls 10000
perrush: folds
Danylein: folds
stckbrker: folds
kair13: folds
Bladman73: folds
JShoe23: checks
*** FLOP *** [Qs 7d 6h]
JShoe23: checks
witts22: bets 102680 and is all-in
JShoe23: calls 102680
*** TURN *** [Qs 7d 6h] [2s]
*** RIVER *** [Qs 7d 6h 2s] [Ah]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
JShoe23: shows [7c 6d] (two pair, Sevens and Sixes)
witts22: shows [As Ac] (three of a kind, Aces)
witts22 collected 238360 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 238360 | Rake 0
Board [Qs 7d 6h 2s Ah]
Seat 2: stckbrker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: kair13 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Bladman73 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: JShoe23 (big blind) showed [7c 6d] and lost with two pair, Sevens and Sixes
Seat 6: ompoker13310 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: witts22 showed [As Ac] and won (238360) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 8: perrush folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Danylein folded before Flop (didn't bet)

ALWAY....... ALWAYS raise with Aces! You did get very lucky then.

How did you end up in the tourney? Nice big fat payout?

if youre open shoving 10 bbs on any flop, shove pre

AceLosesKing wrote:if youre open shoving 10 bbs on any flop, shove pre

THIS! Better to win a small pot with Aces then lose a big one. Flatting from EP with AA just makes the latter one more likely.

yeh got the response i thought id get. Know to do this now. finished up 10th out of 2110 and shipped in $80. Pity it was only a $3 tournament lol

allways preflop rasie

even if you don't want to raise pot there with the antes in play, at least a 2.5x or 3x is warranted. You're perhaps even more likely to induce the shove you're so clearly after than if you just flat. I'm very sus of EP flats that late in a tourney - they just look so sus.

If I pop you with AK/KK/QQ from LP there, and you shove over me, I can lay it down, but if you raise pot, 3x or maybe even 2.5x I'm far more likely to put you on TT/JJ/QQ/KK/AK. Flatting is just asking for trouble and rarely gets paid and you're likely to send yourself broke if something goes wrong.

Thankyou all for your great feedback

maybe i should do it more, but i dont think i have ever limped aces from any position except in rare circumstances, the small blind.

it just tilts me too much when someone flops 2 pair with rags like what happened here.

I kinda like to play AA fairly soft maybe a 1.5 to 2.5 preflop depending on my position, but I also like to leave myself some room to get out of the hand it it turns ugly, why because at the end of the day they are only a pair, abit top pair.

Why it all came about because when playing at the Ark when they had 10 GF seat up for grabs last season, in the 1st session I had pocket A's in consecetive hands bet hard and lost my entire stack both time to AK and KK, fortunate for me I still had both passports but going into the 1st break I had around 900 chips left, I ended finishing 15th out of almost 300 runners missing a seat by a few spots, this taught me not to overate AA, from that day on unless I have a 2 or 3 to 1 chip lead then I might hammer the pot.