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Originally Posted by jojobinks Yes, indeed. (no sarcasm) |
Another thubs up for Yeltzin's analysis.
Limit needs to be played aggressively. In the first hand - you received no information indicating your kings were not the best - so no way to fold them. In fact - a raise by the opponent may only put me into check-call mode with KK. There are simply too many poor players at that level to do otherwise.
Second hand - raise preflop. There are already several players in the hand and you want to punish them for daring to play against your aces. If you get lucky - you will also get the BB to fold. At this limit, I doubt that the Q2 is folding (he already called the BB), but anything can happen. Aces only play well against 1-2 opponents at most so you really need to do whatever you can to limit he field here. Best case would be for the BB to wake up with AK or another strong hand and he reraises. Even at the lowest limits, this usually knocks outjunk like Q2.
The only time to slowplay AA in limit would be if you had no real action unless you did. Like being in the SB or button and first in. If you feel that the remaining players wold fold to a raise, then you limp hoping that they improve enough on the flop to pay you off a little.
Second hand flop - reraise. You need to define your hand and give players with junk something to think about. You either push them off bad draws - or punish them for playing them. OK - so the quy had Q-2. He capps on the flop - and you figure to be behind - and can downshift. Check call to the river. In low limit games - the aces will still win 20-30% of the time unimproved here (the villan here could be playing any number of hands) and you will fill up like %10 of the time.
I do not think many limit players would have folded the hands, but many of us may have played the second one differently. This is one of the times where playing more aggressively would have been the correct thing to do - but the hand still would have been lost. Poker happens and this guy will pay you off over the long run.
If you feel that your poker chops are not up to snuff - get ahold of Millers book Small Stakes Holdem. It has a very usefull strategy for the loose games.
