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baudib
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Do you guys feel you should raise or try to limp in (maybe call a small raise) with suited Aces jacks or lower.
Seems that AJ is a really overplayed hand. It's a good hand to steal the blinds with late in a tourney or as a desperation hand looking to double up. But in general it's a pretty overrated card heads up. Any pocket pair is a decent favorite of course and you're dominated by AQ, AK.
Is it accurate to say that the best way to maximize it is to use it as a drawing hand? If you hit your flush, of course you want lots of people in the pot. If you raise big, you are only inviting trouble from stronger hands. But in an unraised pot or a pot with a small raise, you let in the weak aces that you will probably outkick as well as the inferior connectors. It's not often that a pair of jacks will win a hand, but for that to happen, you want J10s in there with you so you can get them to pay you.
Does this make sense or am I totally off base?
Seems that AJ is a really overplayed hand. It's a good hand to steal the blinds with late in a tourney or as a desperation hand looking to double up. But in general it's a pretty overrated card heads up. Any pocket pair is a decent favorite of course and you're dominated by AQ, AK.
Is it accurate to say that the best way to maximize it is to use it as a drawing hand? If you hit your flush, of course you want lots of people in the pot. If you raise big, you are only inviting trouble from stronger hands. But in an unraised pot or a pot with a small raise, you let in the weak aces that you will probably outkick as well as the inferior connectors. It's not often that a pair of jacks will win a hand, but for that to happen, you want J10s in there with you so you can get them to pay you.
Does this make sense or am I totally off base?