It's true that AA is the best starting hand, but you have to know how to play them properly so you will not have them cracked as often.
Your first priority when holding aces pre-flop is to narrow the feild of players against you. Depending on opponents chip stack, you don't want anymore than 2 other players in the hand. Me, personally, usually only feel comfortable with one other person with a good amount of chips in the hand with me. But if there are some smaller chipstacks at the table that you have dominated in count, up to 3 can be acceptable if you can get their chips in early and put them on a decision. Raise preflop, always. Some times you will not get any callers and it will seem like a waste only picking up the blinds and a few limpers. In the long run it will work out for you though by winning more with AA, instead of letting 4 or more players see the flop and most likely out-draw you by the river, killing your aces.
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