brimson25 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:13 pm
Crazyskier wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 12:59 pm
ShaunWhite wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:22 am
just like there's times you should fold pocket aces pre-flop.
there's NEVER a time to fold AA pre flop in 5 card Hold 'em. They are ALWAYS the best single hand at that point.
And maybe you're on the stone-cold bubble of the biggest tournament you've ever played and you need the money to get home
So, yes, always a favourite, but very foldable in extremis.
Context is king
I'd agree that folding Aces would be pretty crazy in a cash game; but I was thinking about a situation like, being on the bubble or level change in an MTT, you're mid stack, big agresive chip leader on your left, applying pressure to 2 players sat looking at 3 blinds each sat to the left of him. You know that whatever you do the big guy is going to push and the shorties will fold hoping that me and the big guy will go to a showdown. Holding Aces you're 80% fav against the big guy, but do I want to take an 80% chance after 3 days of grinding and a hotel room to pay for, or looking at a 10k golden ticket to the final for your $200 buy in. Probably not.
Doyle Brunson would say "you gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em" These days it'll be a collage kid quoting ICM, and the discrepancy between chips risked and gained where they don’t have a 1:1 ratio like in a cash game. It's rare, but not that rare. Anyways none of this is my original thought, there's thousnads of pages written about folding Aces and without doubt, sometimes you should. The ICM says so.