can you please look at this for me

[baydonvic]

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)

[Nathan Butler]

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

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

[AceLosesKing]

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

[maccatak11]

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.

[baydonvic]

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

[Luke05(Jamo)]

allways preflop rasie

[rcon]

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.

[baydonvic]

Thankyou all for your great feedback

[bennymacca]

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.

[gundog]

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.