Slowplaying AA a good move?

Last night in a MPT satellite I figured I would give slowplaying the AA a try. My first attempt failed bad, preflop I raised the pot (30/60) to 150 preflop. To my disgust, 7 of the other 8 at my table called. To make things worse the flop comes 5, 6, 7 all hearts (which I was not holding Ah) and the BB raises 700. Smelling defeat, I tucked my tail between my legs and mucked the bulls.

Same tourney, and shortly after with the blinds still at 30/60, I get yet another AA in the pocket. This time not wanting to be slaughtered again, I PFR too 500. Everyone folds *Sigh*

Later in the same tourney, I got AA in the pocket, but this time when the stakes where much higher. Here is the history of these that I slowplayed and manged to clean house.

PokerStars Game #541032601: Tournament #2039079, Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2004/07/12 - 23:20:11 (ET)
Table '2039079 65' Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: pittdmb (38463 in chips) Seat 2: bobberman (5430 in chips) Seat 3: eddybo (19106 in chips) Seat 4: dollardoc (11295 in chips) Seat 5: humanhilite (40115 in chips) Seat 6: KewlKatt (53340 in chips) Seat 7: Molman (4350 in chips) Seat 8: BCinNY (35857 in chips) Seat 9: DALLASDEMO (16819 in chips) pittdmb: posts the ante 50
bobberman: posts the ante 50
eddybo: posts the ante 50
dollardoc: posts the ante 50
humanhilite: posts the ante 50
KewlKatt: posts the ante 50
Molman: posts the ante 50
BCinNY: posts the ante 50
DALLASDEMO: posts the ante 50
humanhilite: posts small blind 300
KewlKatt: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KewlKatt [Ah As]
Molman: folds BCinNY: folds DALLASDEMO: calls 600
pittdmb: folds bobberman: folds eddybo: calls 600
dollardoc: calls 600
humanhilite: folds KewlKatt: raises 900 to 1500
DALLASDEMO: calls 900
eddybo: calls 900
dollardoc: calls 900
*** FLOP *** [7s Ad Th]
KewlKatt: checks
DALLASDEMO: checks
eddybo: checks
dollardoc: bets 1200
KewlKatt: calls 1200
DALLASDEMO: folds
eddybo: folds
*** TURN *** [7s Ad Th] [2s]
KewlKatt: checks dollardoc: bets 1800
KewlKatt: raises 1800 to 3600
dollardoc: calls 1800
*** RIVER *** [7s Ad Th 2s] [3h]
KewlKatt: bets 6000
dollardoc: folds KewlKatt collected 16350 from pot
KewlKatt: shows [Ah As] (three of a kind, Aces)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 16350 | Rake 0 Board [7s Ad Th 2s 3h]
Seat 1: pittdmb folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: bobberman folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: eddybo folded on the Flop
Seat 4: dollardoc (button) folded on the River
Seat 5: humanhilite (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: KewlKatt (big blind) collected (16350)
Seat 7: Molman folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: BCinNY folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: DALLASDEMO folded on the Flop

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PokerStars Game #541023979: Tournament #2039079, Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2004/07/12 - 23:16:51 (ET)
Table '2039079 65' Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: pittdmb (39263 in chips)
Seat 2: bobberman (7130 in chips)
Seat 3: Paralyzer (9985 in chips)
Seat 4: dollardoc (12395 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 5: humanhilite (40915 in chips)
Seat 6: KewlKatt (37155 in chips)
Seat 7: Molman (5150 in chips)
Seat 8: BCinNY (22387 in chips)
Seat 9: whiteslash (5377 in chips)
pittdmb: posts the ante 50
bobberman: posts the ante 50
Paralyzer: posts the ante 50
dollardoc: posts the ante 50
humanhilite: posts the ante 50
KewlKatt: posts the ante 50
Molman: posts the ante 50
BCinNY: posts the ante 50
whiteslash: posts the ante 50
BCinNY: posts small blind 300
whiteslash: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KewlKatt [Ac Ah]
pittdmb: folds
bobberman: calls 600
Paralyzer: calls 600
dollardoc: folds
humanhilite: folds
KewlKatt: raises 600 to 1200
Molman: folds
BCinNY: calls 900
whiteslash: folds
bobberman: calls 600
Paralyzer: calls 600
*** FLOP *** [3d 8c As]
BCinNY: checks
bobberman: checks
Paralyzer: checks
KewlKatt: checks
*** TURN *** [3d 8c As] [Ad]
BCinNY: bets 3000
bobberman: folds
Paralyzer: raises 5735 to 8735 and is all-in
KewlKatt: calls 8735
BCinNY: folds
*** RIVER *** [3d 8c As Ad] [Tc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Paralyzer: shows [3s 3h] (a full house, Threes full of Aces)
KewlKatt: shows [Ac Ah] (four of a kind, Aces)
KewlKatt collected 26320 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 26320 | Rake 0 Board [3d 8c As Ad Tc]
Seat 1: pittdmb folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: bobberman folded on the Turn
Seat 3: Paralyzer showed [3s 3h] and lost with a full house, Threes full of Aces
Seat 4: dollardoc folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: humanhilite folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: KewlKatt showed [Ac Ah] and won (26320) with four of a kind, Aces
Seat 7: Molman (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: BCinNY (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 9: whiteslash (big blind) folded before Flop

Funny thing in this second example, Paralyzer was slowplaying his trip 3's being almost certain noone held pocket AA's (cause who does a 2x PFR with AA) hehehe me!

I recieved AA once more late in the tourney, but the stakes where to high to let just anyone see the flop, (1000/2000) I raised to 10k, had one all in caller who held AK and blew his doors off.

My question for the critics is slow playing AA early in a tourney worth it?

I saw two others slow play the AA that tourney, both ended up out of the tourney as a direct result of slow playing the bulls because they couldn't lay down after someone drew a better hand.

One fella did the same as me, and only 2X the blinds PFR. he had a mit full of callers. With 2 diamonds on the flop he had one guy betting into him, AA called. Turn comes with the 3rd diamond, both held about 100k in chips, the better bet 5k, AA shows his colours and goes over the top with 20k, better All-ins, AA all-ins, better shows 47d and AA was blown out of the tourney.

The other one was just as bad even later in the tourney.
AA again only 2x blinds (3000/6000) has 2 callers. flop comes all low cards, rainbow, no strt, think it was 3 7 9. AA checks, one of the callers raises 12k, sensing a sucker with a low pair or 9s, AA calls, turn comes with a K. AA again checks, the caller raises again 12k, this time AA figures he earned enough slow playing his AA and goes over the top of caller going all-in, caller calls and shows his pocket 3s and takes AA out of the tourney.

I'm a fan of the slow play of aces but you have to know when to get away from it (like you did) if you can't then slow playing is out of the question.

Its all about risk vs reward, I always raise KK more pre-flop than AA.

I also like using the limp re-raise, but you have to be sure there will be a raise behind you.

i dont like to slowplay AA early in the tournament mainly for the reason of the reward isnt going to be enough to risk it. Too many callers early on that could have virtually anything. one of them flops two pair or better and i'm going to be losing a fair bit of money unless they bet out a huge amount. I'd rather raise it and see if anyone has a good enough hand to play and risk taking only the blinds. Later I can mask my AA with the standard preflop raise i've used on my playing hands and likely get a caller or two especially in shorthanded play.. hope they hit the flop and bet into me. then the check raise comes and then fun begins 8)

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Originally Posted by Toasty

I'm a fan of the slow play of aces but you have to know when to get away from it (like you did) if you can't then slow playing is out of the question.

Its all about risk vs reward, I always raise KK more pre-flop than AA.

I also like using the limp re-raise, but you have to be sure there will be a raise behind you.

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doood that a FREAKING scary ass looking clown.. made me realize why I was soo scared of them when I was younger

What tournament was that? Are you telling me you got rockets 5 times in the same game and you made a set of aces on the flop at least twice? Did you win?

I don't slowplay Aces. I play other hands fast enough that I usually get action.