I've been thinking about whether or not to make any adjustments when lucky enough to be dealt the bullets during an Aces Cracked promotion, i.e. do you just limp them pre to keep as many villains in the hand as possible, do you play passively postflop etc?

I think MAYBE if I get them in early position I can see limping and maybe even going for a limp-3-bet, but if 4 villains have already limped into the pot not raising is just silly - who's going to fold?

And then even postflop, once I've built a big pot nobody's going to fold draws that have a reasonable chance of outdrawing me, and I might even get someone with AK or AQ who makes TPTK to raise *me*. Or even better, someone with K5 on a K5449 board may think he sucked out on me. Certainly nobody's going to fold anything that beats AA on ANY board.

So getting to the point, I think the ONLY adjustment I make is not raising or 3-betting AA before the flop if doing so has a decent chance of limiting the field, and I can't imagine making any adjustments postflop - I want to build myself the biggest possible pot, and if I win an $80 pot instead of a $100 aces cracked promotion FML.

Thoughts?

What stakes?

A 2/4 pot needs 25 BB to make the pot worth more than the promo - a tough proposition, and promo chasing is almost certainly worth it. A 4/8 pot needs 12.5, which you can often count on but you could imagine times where sacrificing a percentage of the pot is smaller than the percentage gain in the promo. By 8/16, you're almost always better off playing for the pot, and by 20/40 you can pretty much assume the promo doesn't exist.

One factor you left out - if you raise preflop, you actually disguise your AA., which may enable you to get more calls later in the hand. Probably all of your opponents would limp in with AA to not risk pushing out a winning hand.