ITH Poker Forum

[Leunam58]

I Often get knocked out in early satges of tournements by calling "All in" with hands like AK, AQ, AJ, against small and midle pocket pairs (like 44, 77 or 99) am i wrong to call with this kind of hands or r my oponnents a bit wild loose to go all in with tose kind of hands? What is the best estragie in this cases?

[Damien]

Its basically a coin flip, however the pocket pair usually has a slight advantage. The closest thing to an actual coin flip that i can come up with is AKs vs. 22 (neither of the twos the same suit as the AK). So, if you know (not likely) that you're up against a pocket pair, you will almost always have at least a small disadvantage with 2 high cards.

[chrisjp]

Big difference between AK and AQ and AJ. And your opponents don't always have to have a small or middle pair. Depends upon the situation though. Usually a mistake to call with anything less than AK, and not even AK often. But lots of factors and it just depends.

Welcome!

Chris

[Peterff]

I'm not at pro, but I think if you call "All in" to often you get predictable soon. Generally calling "all in" with e.g. AK is a thing I did often myself

[alarson4986]

It depends, if someone is better than you and you can't outplay them I say you want to get all your money in against them being equal or a slight advantage percentage wise.

However, if your calling these against players you can steal from. I think its a mistake. There are pros that will fold big pairs against weak players becasue they know these people are usually dead money. So why play a hand were your a 70% when they rest of the time your almost guranteed to outplay them.

I'm from Milwaukee, WI and travel to northern parts of Wisconsin were play is not so competitive and I'm playing against a bunch of retirees, that call me the nice kid. I want to keep this image, I'm going to chip away at people and not expose any of my hands, especially never knock out a poor old man that had a made pair agianst my a-q.

Up there Before I was deployed I had a great run in tournaments and credit it all to stealing(maybe 5 % of the field, from which I seen actually do this) period