You're a Bunch of Factors

Okay so I did a ten hr Grind Session at Sky City on Saturday night. In 10 Hours I got AA's 5 times and only won with them once.

I was playing pretty tight.

The first time I raised to $6 on a pretty tight table to be called by T9 in cut off flopping trip 9's. The second time I raised to $8 and laid them down on a KhQhx board against two of the other tightest players on the table at the time with a check raise from c/u and a call for $200. Villan had AJh and hit 6h turn. Won the third time and lost the 4th when the guy said he put me on AK and hit a set of 9's on the river. I paid him off $25 on the river with about $200 in the pot by then and a J high rainbow no straight board.

Overall, my A's cost me around $180 over the session.

I walked off after 10 hours with enough to pay the valet and my original buy in. I wasn't too stressed about the money I was doing it as more of an experiment of playing for long stretches with the GF coming up.

Look forward to your comments.

nice story bro

What sort of comments are u after?

Sorry, I meant to ask is how should one play AA's on $1/$2... Raise heavily pre on a tightish table? Or just open for $6 or so?

On a 1/2 table:

1. open for more
2. don't expect to win with them every time

on the $1/$2 tables i have played at the casino?

Open to $12, pot any flop, shove any turn and get called by pocket 7's under the board. easy game.

I had an online 5 hr dig the other night, couple of 1/2 tables and a tourney running. Got AA twice on the 1/2. Both times was lucky enough to have another player raise preflop (once to $9, once to $11) both times I pot raised to high $20s and both times they folded. Both times I was happy with the preflop wins of 6-7 BB.

MattyMoo wrote:Sorry, I meant to ask is how should one play AA's on $1/$2... Raise heavily pre on a tightish table? Or just open for $6 or so?

What is your position, stack size etc etc.

Generally at live 1/2 the players are worried about their cards only, not your raise size. So they will call regardless of your actual bet size. As a result, you can usually make it a lot bigger. Last time I was there, 10-12 was about my standard open, maybe up to 20 if there are any limpers. If the table is tight, just start raising 40% of hands until they loosen up. And if you re-adjust quicker, you will be able to crush them for big pots

Also, play them pretty fast on the flop if the board has draws because they won't care about odds. Lead for full pot or even overbet so that you can easily get it in on the turn, where their equity is lowest

+1 to last 2...

bennymacca wrote:If the table is tight, just start raising 40% of hands until they loosen up.

If they all continue to fold to you, showing a PFR with garbage is another way to get them to loosen up quicker too... One of the few times I would consider showing...