[AGreen]

Originally Posted by Yearbookpoker

The first is to bet out double the big blind or if early and blinds are lower bet like 4x the big blind. The other way to come out with it is to just call and hope to get lucky.

I like the 4x the BB play, but minimum raising or just calling is the quickest way to get your aces cracked. The best thing that could come out of minimum raising or limping is someone later to act making a play at the pot. If the pot is cheap then more people will be in it and you're going to lose more than you'd like.

[BadAndy]

ALL IN NO MATTER WHAT THE SITUATION WITH AA PREFLOP... I HAVE BEEN BURNED TOO MANY TIMES BY FISH WHEN I RAISE 200-500 or 5x bb. JUST TOO MANY MORONS OUT THERE TO SLOWPLAY IT. YOU WILL LOSE TO SOMETHING. IF YOU GO ALLIN, NO1 CAN BLAME YOU AND IF U LOSE YOU WENT IN WITH THE BEST HAND!!!

[Klopzi]

Originally Posted by W13rd0W

AA is the best starting hand but u shouldn't go all in preflop with this hand...after all if the flop has even a pair of 2 and you are raised you should give up and fold..after all AA is a good hand but sometimes it needs improvment so you could be sure you win the pot..so u gotta know how to play it and you have to know when to fold'em...

Haven't really been reading the forum for a while, but stopped by today. I haven't read this whole thread, but I had to comment on the post above.

This is the worst bit of knowledge that I've ever read. When you pick up AA, you are thinking of one thing only: how can I get all my chips into the middle of the pot? If you're afraid to gamble with AA, you should not be playing poker.

You're at least an 80% favourite over any other hand. There is not a single gambling situation anywhere else in the entire known universe that gives you odds as good as these.

But there is one caveat: you want to get all your chips in pre-flop. Once the flop hits, you now have one pair and are losing to any two pair, any set, any straight, any flush, etc.

So play your AA hard before the flop, if you can get it all-in then do so, and if you can't, play it smart but hard after the flop.