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 Originally Posted by zboyce
Why did you post? Slow playing AA should never be considered outplaying some one, every fish in the world knows how to do that.
In the right hands it can be a useful weapon though. Two players can perform the same action with different intentions and from one player, it's stupid... from the other, a calculated and smart risk. I'm not saying which one this qualifies as, because I have no idea from one hand history.
To give you an example, a good friend of mine in my home game raises 98% of the time with aces. He hates slowplaying anything except the mortal nuts. But last time we played a tournament, he actually limped aces from the small blind - just like in this hand - because the big blind was a mega-LAgg who was raising every time my friend limped, or checked a hand post-flop. He knew a raise might result in a fold + small pot, but a limp was an open invitation to a hyper-aggressive player. The aggro guy was obliging and pushed, and my friend gladly called. (And just like here, got sucked out on by 95 suited... oh the pain.)
You should have just raised if you were going to do anything, he would have folded to a raise if he had a foldable hand, you didn't have to risk all your chips with Q9.
That much I agree with... psychotic raise considering the stack sizes of other players. I don't bother playing pre-flop games against fellow big stacks when a little stack is so close to extinction. I know our hero was relying on that mindset to steal some chips, but I still think the push is ridiculous - even if I didn't know what the other guy had. You're risking way too much with a crummy hand.
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