John Juanda All-in Blind

When you move all in preflop, you are saying to your opponent that you have pocket Aces. Or at least you at signifying to your opponent that you believe you have the best hand preflop. When you put a move like that, more times than not you will get your opponent to fold his hand and avoid the trouble of having a bad flop ruin your killer hand. In my opinion a move like this is a good play. Some people will slow play pocket aces and get burnt by flush draws, straight draws, trips, 2 pair etc. A pair of aces is a great hand preflop, but after the flop... that's another story.

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yeah they are great but you are less likely to make a better hand than say, KQs. Moving all-in certainly tells the table you have a premium hand... It also weeds out marginal hands that could get lucky and cost you a bad beat... good move in some cases

There are too many different situations, but usually you have judge your call on how many chips he has (and you have), how he's been playing the previous hands (and how you have), the amount of people left to act (position), because heads up pocket 2s are just as good against A-K as 9s, and chances are always on lower pockets against 2 over cards, from 51% to 57% (something like that) of winning the hand. Usually when people go all in they think they have best hand possible or this is the best hand they are going to get for awhile in the short stack. If you sense weakness or them raising on a draw a good play is all in.

Didnt see the DN game, but I like Layne Flack, cant remember which tourney but he terrorized Freddy Deeb in it basically ran him into the ground with his amazing play.

Can you fold pocket A-A to 10-10s preflop??

when i play in tournements with my friends i like to do it because it gives you that feeling of uncertainty whioch is fun because you dont know what you have. any body else feel the sme way

Layne flack is a great player... everyone has off days/tournys to say he is a bad player is just stupid