Gotta love it!

[heatman]

***** Hand History for Game 614253930 *****
Table Coffee beans (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: bigalaskan ( $110.92 )
Seat 4: joker714 ( $73.34 )
Seat 7: Dauphin65 ( $370.05 )
Seat 9: tripppj ( $46.85 )
Seat 10: wolfenmaker ( $60.32 )
Seat 5: heat62 ( $90.25 )
Seat 3: Cman4891 ( $49 )
Seat 8: rickiej805 ( $75.52 )
Seat 6: WinningTiger ( $92 )
Seat 2: JINGA99 ( $60 )
wolfenmaker posts small blind [$1].
bigalaskan posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to heat62 [ Ah Ac ]
JINGA99 folds.
Cman4891 calls [$2].
joker714 folds.
heat62 raises [$5].
WinningTiger calls [$5].
Dauphin65 folds.
rickiej805 folds.
tripppj folds.
wolfenmaker calls [$4].
bigalaskan calls [$3].
Cman4891 is all-In.
heat62 is all-In.
WinningTiger folds.
wolfenmaker folds.
bigalaskan folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2s, 5h, Ks ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ Th ]
heat62 shows [ Ah, Ac ] a pair of aces.
Cman4891 doesn't show [ Ad, 8d ] high card ace.
heat62 wins $41.25 from side pot #1 with a pair of aces.
heat62 wins $113 from the main pot with a pair of aces.

[Fnord]

Gotta love it when that happens.

One thought here though, and someone else may disagree... It's half your stack to call, so why re-raise to scare off the other players with your Aces? No way anyone gets implied odds to call if you push on the flop and I think a 3rd caller would be +EV (but higher risk, of course) given how strong Aces are. So why not stall a few seconds and just call here? Although, the over-call would be pretty freak anyway...

[Toasty]

I agree with Fnord that calling would be more EV, but, in that sit i'm also pushing. The pot is big enough to keep me very happy and i'd be devestated to get my AA cracked from here.

It also avoids having to make a nasty decision for the rest of your stack on the flop, if its ugly.

[Fnord]

It also avoids having to make a nasty decision for the rest of your stack on the flop, if its ugly.

No decision, push-in and let them figure it out or call if they beat you to it. No #$%^@ way you would ever laydown.

[heatman]

In a ring game, with AA if I've got somebody with a decent stack who will go all in with me pre-flop, I'm almost always going to push it in.

That third player may not be making too much of a mistake calling $45 against $105 with say KQs or JJ. Once he calls, the fourth could be in as well. From there its anybody's ballgame.

After I saw all those face cards coming up I was awfully glad I pushed in. Lots of hands can beat me. AJs, 9Js, KQ, KTs, TT, QQ are all potential callers without the all-in re-raise (well 9Js may be a stretch, even at PP - but is a possibility for the fourth guy whose going to get 3:1 odds)

[Fnord]

That third player may not be making too much of a mistake calling $45 against $105 with say KQs or JJ. Once he calls, the fourth could be in as well. From there its anybody's ballgame.

I think even the 4rth call is +EV. Aces are that good.

[Toasty]

No decision, push-in and let them figure it out or call if they beat you to it. No #$%^@ way you would ever laydown.

My point was if the flop came all one suited of a suit you didn't have, you don't have to worry about calling / folding to an all in bet. Its an extreme example, but one that i've seen more than once. Pushing all in pf has a small bonus of removing this decision was my point.

I by no means was saying to fold to a scary board, just a way to avoid a decision if you flop the "nightmare from hell" flop.