Recent Home Game

[DrumzCT]

Was UTG with AA, happy happy.

action came around

call 2
raise to 6
re-raise 20
re-raise 50


This is the 2nd or third round of a ten handed tounry me and my friends play.

I raised it again to 100, blinds fold, everyone else calls.

Would this have been a good place to go all in?

I know its early but these guys rarely raise preflop unless they have a PP or some high suited cards, all of which im favored over. I took the pot down when i tripped my aces on the flop, Axx. the pot was 503 and i bet 250, everyone folded.

[r8ed]

All-in is probably good because either everyone folds and you take the money already in the pot or you get one caller and you have a huge advantage over any hand. They got a free look at the flop to see if their KK or QQ would connect. It would end your night early if you got outdrawn but is somebody else willing to end their night without the goods?

[FlyingSaucy]

I think the whole raise, re-raise, re-raise, re-raise ad infinitum preflop scenereo is an interesting one. At some point someone's got to put a foot down and say, "alright, enough screwing around." and do a massive re-raise, non of this min re-raising junk.

It actually works very well to your advantage when you are holding AA, provided you can get all but one person to fold out.

Say it goes like this:
Blinds are at 10. You bet 5x preflop. Get raised to 15. Now you come over the top and they *still* won't back down. That's great, because you are either playing against another AA, or a stubborn guy who can't recognize when he's dominated. At some point after the 342nd round of re-raising, you've gotten all of his chips in the pot when you are ahead.

A good question is after how many re-raises do you just say screw you and push all in? If you push all in preflop, maybe he'll get the hint and fold a nice pot to you. Otherwise, you could take the 20% risk or whatever, and keep re-raising until a point where an all in reraise really isn't all that much more and it would be ridiculous for him to fold. Either way, it's better to let him be the idiot and keep re-raising, never back down and just call to see the flop.

[FlyingSaucy]

... never back down and just call to see the flop.

Obviously. hahaha. Didn't realize how inane this last statement was until I went back and read my post.
If you ever, at any point, just call a raise or re-raise preflop with aces, you are officially a moron in my book!