Aces the best and worst

[donna777]

There is some good advise for playing aces but even if i isolate the hand i seem to loose. this seems mostly during freerolls. It seems like a set up hand where someone has pocket aces, kings, and queens. I always loose to the queens. I have no luck with aces.

[arod724]

You might not be playing aggressive enough. When you have pocket ace's you should try not to let most of the players see the flop.

[moobox]

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.

[poker_d_player]

trapping with bullets can be so much fun, even if you ocassionally loose all your chips.

as long as you can part with them when you are beat you can live to trap another day.

[leet222]

i was playing a tourny today on pokerstars and got pocket aces 3 hands in a row and won 3 times lol 2 all in first 2 allin second and 1 allin 3rd time
but i must say i have lost with them quite afew times

[nerdy21]

Like i say, u gotta raise AA, so your only up against good hands. If you get unlucky thats one thing. Just dont slow play them. The BB and SB wil love you too much.

[iceman10]

aces with at least a 7 kicker