Exactly. That was literally the first paid tournament I ever played. It was a great lesson to learn early. The poker gods loved me from the start. lol
Your incredulous response is why I beat people with lesser self discipline. I will fold anything in any position if I am playing my long slow game. The pain is seeing my pots go to lesser pockets time and again. But that is the price I pay for controlling my pace and the timing of my aggression.
I think i read somewhere long ago that 89suited was the best starting hand 2 beat pocket A’s. Not sure as this is not my game–i do know that rolled up aces is best starting hand in 7-stud and a 40% chance 2 make house or better with rolled up.
For what it’s worth, 65s is the best starting hand against pocket aces.
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Well, any suited connector that doesn’t need the A to make a straight is best, 65-T9 all have the same equity.
If you take card removal into account, the lower ones tend to be better the if someone else has also put decent money in pre-flop. The higher connectors are likely to be marginally better if that’s not the case.
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65s has slightly more equity than higher suited connectors, since it unblocks more boards that are five to a straight and chop with AA. Just double-checked with an Equity Calculator; you can check for yourself.
You’re right. Win percentage is the same for 65-87, but you chop slightly more often with 65. I was also forgetting that with 98 and T9, KQJTx gives aces a better straight, so we don’t even win with those hands quite as often.
I think it’s still the case that if more low cards are folded, the higher suited connectors are better though, so I could see situations where 98 would be marginally better than 65.
all i can tell you… is play the same games… every day… at the same time… dont play any hands… blind out that should take a hour… instead of playing take notes on the other players… the next day come back and wreck them at their own game…
One year ago i made me this app, it looks to all hole and table cards what can be dealt, 2 players (German number format):
Not all the same on different suites:
Many to do, it needs 1 minute on 20 threads:
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All i know is some awww weekend Donk put me all in ( 4 bet) this weekend, i awww won:) in a small cash game ----I love weekend donks ( late at night n they high and or drunk ).
I was dealt pocket aces the first hand of tournament poker I ever sat. I find that my challenge is not playing good poker. My challenge is accepting that the universe wants me to win.
You guys wouldn’t like playing with Gus Hansen…starts a high stakes tournament by going all in blind without even looking…
Then proceeds to go all in every hand and eventually wins said tournament!
Genius or fool!?
Well, if you saw him do this in a tourney then I would choose fool.
Don’t know when this occurred but didn’t, he drop out some years ago?
I heard he went bankrupt but may be just a rumor. I think I remember reading on-line poker kicked his butt.
I thought it sounded foolish too but I watched the video and it made perfect sense. It was a special 6-max multi-round tournament where you earned points in each round. Gus was far behind in points so In order to advance, he needed to win the round. Furthermore, several others at the table needed to finish 4th or 3rd to advance so he knew that they would be nitty early.
So what he did was he TOLD THE TABLE that he would be shoving pre, which made them even more nitty. It was very smart, so he had a number of steals. Then he got lucky with the runouts on a couple. Then he had a huge chip lead and could put anyone all-in at any time with not much risk.
He lost one hand, he chopped another, and folded a couple of times. But he won like 75 or 80% of the hands, the first 6 or 7 in a row.
Yes, he was lucky, but due to the unique points format, his strategy was actually brilliant.
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OOPs, forgot 2 say-i had pocket A’s and weekend donk had awww 7-2 off suit —if i lost i would of retired from poker lol;).