The setting: Live juicy $2/5 NL Texas Hold'em game on a Saturday night.

Hero's stack: $500. There is a straddle.

UTG+1 limps for $10.
Hero (MP) raises to $75 with AA
BTN calls the $75
SB folds
BB calls the $75
UTG (the straddled calls)
UTG+1 limp/reraises to $280.

BINGO! We got exactly what we wanted. UTG+1 was actually limp/trapping and since we know that player has a super strong hand and that we are going to win their entire stack, we decide to slowplay our AA and just flat call the $280. Moving on...

BTN re-shoves all in, BB goes all in as well and UTG over-cold-calls (!!!). Of course, UTG+1 calls.

Now we have a situation. We've already put in $280 of our $500 stack in the middle with AA. Some say that we are "pot committed". Let's re-evaluate the situation for a moment.

- Four players. That's right, 4 players have gone all in ahead of us. With our $280 already invested, we are getting $2280 to $220, or roughly 10 to 1 in our call.

HOWEVER, Hero puts at least one of his opponents on an AX type of hand. Now I'm no poker genius but I read somewhere that when you are multiway, you need to hit a set with your big pair hands to have a chance at winning. Since we are putting at least one opponent on an Ace, we have at best one out left to improve. I also read somewhere that hitting a one outter is something like less than 0.2% likely.

Given that we are multiway (5 handed to exact), given that we put at least one opponent on AX, in spite of getting more than 10 to 1 odds on a call, our one pair hand is as good as mush. We are better off using that $220 to purchase lottery tickets.

Hero folds.

The Showdown

The Villains reveal their hands: KK, QQ, AKss, AQhh.

Hero was wrong. Not one, but BOTH of our outs were out of play. Not only that but we are facing two live flush draws, Broadway straight draws, possible royal flushes and since none of the villains had JJ or 10-10, that makes the chances of a Broadway hitting even bigger!

The flop and turn were completely meaningless. But the river (where most Texas Hold'em faiths have been decided) brings the Queen of diamonds. QQ scoops a monster pot and Hero dodges a bullet with a brilliant fold. We save $220.

This calls for a celebration. Some people get married to AA because wow, "Pawcket Rawckets zomg lulz". But folks, at the end of the day, it is just one pair.

There's one time in poker where it's correct to fold AA pre -- when you're in a fixed qualifier satellite (i.e. 7 get a ticket to the tourney and everyone else gets nothing), on or very near the bubble, and you have plenty of chips to fade the blinds relative to the shortstacks, and a player who covers you goes all in.

That's it.

Take your example to BQ and see what they say, assuming it's not "Go away MTT."

Keep playing poker.

Thank you.

What's BQ?

lawls

I'm also assuming that all the dollar values in OP are actually cents.

This is the Pizza Parlor .10/.20 pot limit. I was ****ing there. I can't believe that OP is blowing this smoke up our asses.

I'm calling you out, MTT. How dare you change the hand history? The fact of the matter is you were in for $2.80 in pizzabucks. Not to mention I staked you so you were really folding all that value, costing me money pizza in the process!

I can't believe this. This just can't stand. What's your most interesting hand?

correct fold obviously

Brilliant!

Beat: you are MTT_9797.

[ ] this happened

( ) Correctly folded AA pre like a BAUSS

good fold, nh op

What is this thread

LOl for anyone who actually reads this, but this is what you get for not culling MTT. Thanks Obama

WE DID CULL MTT

Oh so he's back. multiresistnt fungus or wahtever. Ib alme Obama

This guys gotta be trolling, but youre 63% to win. Hard to hit broadway when theres no live aces, one live king and one live queen

requesting ban

Welcome back Briro2017

Some time ago two certain people really should have used some birth control.

OP believes in a flat earth.

I want to see a photo of you OP. Then I will know if you're a 100% troll.

Results rule, even though it's the WRONG play. Variance is a POS. This is a F'd up game.

Wsop starting stacks suck big dix