Feeding off thread, just wondering what you do with AA on a loose full (10 player) table.

Limpin with aces:

I never ever do it. I think maybe a year ago i did it, when i was playing at a ridiculously tight/aggressive 40/80 table, and i was UTG. And beleive you me, that was a game that i shouldve gotten up from, because it wasnt a very profitable one.

My general rule is that yeah, there are situations / tables where your best off limping with aces, but those tables are generally not the biggest EV tables to be at anyways, so you shouldnt be limping with AA, and if you find yourself at a table where its the proper play, then you oughta change tables.

How about if ultra-aggressive players are to your left. Would you limp in hopes of three betting?

Perhaps I should have phrased the poll differently. How about everyone also answers this question:

When you play Aces, are you trying to
a) Limit the field
b) Get money into the pot
c) Both.

If (C) How many players are you comfortable going up against?

I definitely go with C, and there's no limit to how many players I want to go against max. Hell, I'll gladly take AA against 9 opponents for a raise every time. Even though you'll win less often, your profits would rise.

However, there are still many good reasons to raise. (1) To get money in and when know you have the best hand (2) It will help to define your opponents' hands. If you let the blinds in cheap or let people limp in LP, you'll have a lot of trouble knowing where you are in the hand. (3) Although limiting the field might not be mathematically profitable, it will increase your chances of winning the hand...thus reducing your swings, and preventing tilt / mouse-destruction.

I was on a limp-reraise kick a while back and learned some interesting (though hardly ground breaking) things. I found that both AA and KK are more a bit profitable when you can pull off a limp-reraise, but a LOT less profitable when the limp-reraise fails. Therefore, you should only attempt a limp-reraise when (1) it has a decent likelihood of success, i.e. you're at an aggressive table, and (2) there's a significant chance your EP raise would only steal the blinds. If there's any calling station at the table who I know will call my raise, than I'm not even going to consider limping. Same holds true if most pots are of the unraised, multiway variety.

These days, I rarely limp my aces...and about half the time I do, I wind up wishing I hadn't.

-TW