I played some $50 NLO8 tables last night on stars; very juicy games. Now my questions. What hands do I want to go allin with preflop? What hands would I call an allin from another player with preflop? I notice that various people move in with any AA hand or any A with two wheel cards. I've seen people calling preflop allins with A347 and hands like that. And it doesn't go raise-reraise-allin; no, it's limp-push allin, call allin.

I sense that there is some good money to be made here . The only problem postflop I have is deciding on the proper betting amount. It happened three times that I flopped the nut boat but made no money because of the low draws or runner-runner low draws. If I have KK and the flop is K66, should I overbet to make an A23-type hand pay dearly for the backdoor? It seems that many opponents are willing to make speculative calls on flops , improve on the turn and then end up with half of the pot, whereas you really don't want them to get away with that...

Sorry for rambling, it was a weird experience!

Agreed with Monk, use your smarts to get a bigger edge post flop when at all possible.

On the nut boat (KK - K66) situation, I let them see a turn, hope for a low, then make them pay to draw to it. They will hit once in a while, but they will miss just as often. If they'd like to put their money in the pot hoping to maybe get it back, that's fine with me.

I tend to agree with Monk on this, and not because there are morons out there who will call your all-ins with lousy holdings. The problem is that there is no hand that is more than a 60% favorite pre-flop. That is slightly better than a coin flip. So even if you get a moron to call your all in when you have AA23 double suited, you still lose it 40% of the time. This is too much variance for me. I would rather make the donks pay in situations where I have a juicier edge.