How do you decide when to go all in?

[vaskeet]

Always wondered when people generally decide to go all in. Pocket Aces are obvious, some do pocket Kings and I'm always a maybe with AK suited. At what point do people be more reserved and either do a small raise or just initally check

 

[rsparente]

While exploiting other players' mistake. If you're playing again a maniac, slow rolling would be good. But I prefer always showing the strength, so no one else besides you and the maniac get in the hand.

 

[scobido]

When I play with small stakes, I always go all in from the beginning, the chance is 50-50 to double up, so I don't know if I'm doing it right, but most of the time I think I won.

 

[dannystanks]

Always wondered when people generally decide to go all in. Pocket Aces are obvious, some do pocket Kings and I'm always a maybe with AK suited. At what point do people be more reserved and either do a small raise or just initally check

I generally don’t decide to go All In based on a particular starting hand. Instead I base it on how many Big Blinds that I have. If I have 200+ Big Blinds I am really not excited to get it All In here pre flop. Especially if it’s early in a tournament.

 

[dannystanks]

I’m not saying I won’t go All In here, if it progresses to that during the fun pre flop raising war that’s about to happen lol

 

[SPANKYSN]

You should take several factors into account. How aggressive or passive your opponents are in their play, how many big blinds you have, your position and your table reputation. If you have a monster, you want to get the most out of it...so...you don't want to go up against 4 or 5 players, at the same time, if you are in early position, you don't want to scare everyone into folding, leaving you with a monster hand, and just the blinds to show for it.

 

[sibkaz]

You calculate the probability, the strength of the cards, the stack size is less than 10BB, the opponent is very careful... and when the stack allows you to enter a big pot...

 

[R.Melnyk77]

Always wondered when people generally decide to go all in. Pocket Aces are obvious, some do pocket Kings and I'm always a maybe with AK suited. At what point do people be more reserved and either do a small raise or just initally check

I think it all depends on personal experience, skills, discipline and style of play. I go all-in when I realise I have a real chance of doubling up, or when I know my opponent and realise that his hand could potentially be weaker than mine. In general, I go all-in when I am confident in my chances of a good result.

 

[gloria_marga]

Whenever I have AKs I consider that all-in is a very good way to play the hand

 

[kecoakbogor]

stack 3x than their stacks XD

 

[eetenor]

Always wondered when people generally decide to go all in. Pocket Aces are obvious, some do pocket Kings and I'm always a maybe with AK suited. At what point do people be more reserved and either do a small raise or just initally check

A free version of GTOWIZARD is very helpful for answering such a vast question---it allows you to interact with Villain actions preflop and get an idea of when we use all-in for value/bluffs-