Damn the river...

[taipan168]

Couple of quick things:
Stop right there! Your favourite hand to play should be AA, followed by KK, followed by QQ, you get the idea. Just because you've won some huge pot with 99 doesn't mean it somehow has magical properties!"

Hum i totally disagree with that, i made more money on 53s than on queens, kings or even aces. Actually i even probably lost more money than i won with queens.

Over how many hands is your sample size? It's kind of hard to judge in tourneys because the blinds increase. Plus, how you play postflop has a big bearing on this but if you're all in preflop, the odds are the odds! How about this, if you really like 53s rather than AA, how about we play heads up dealing you 53s every time and me AA and I'll go AI preflop every time?

In a full cash game ill take a suited connector in late position over AK in early position anytime.

This is different, cash games are way deeper stacked because you can reload. SNGs are very shallow stacked games, even in the early levels and so you need to play accordingly. Do you still say you'd rather have T9s in late position rather than AA UTG?

Off course you should never fold Aces or even Kings (well maybe kings sometimes) preflop and play them smart on the flop turn and river, you dont want to go all in against some crazy two pair or set, after all its only one pair you got. In a tournament with huge blinds its best to have those aces though.

Agreed!

My only point to OP was that you should avoid the concept of a "favourite" hand, when I played lower buyins I saw people do crazy shit with hands like Q9s, justifying it by saying, "it's my favourite hand!".