Isolating with AA
Monday, March 8th, 2010You’re playing poker online. You get AA and you think, hmm, I better get some money out of this. So you decide to slow play it and you end up getting them busted by a two pair connected set you let limp in.
So let’s talk about isolating with high pocket pairs like AA and KK. You’ll want to raise the max most of the time in your standard raising with AA or KK. If you normally bet 3 or 4 big blinds, bet 5 or 6 to keep from limpers calling. If you get into a raised pot. Skip the 3 betting then four betting, just go ahead and 5bet a stack.
Again , this will keep the limpers from getting in and sucking out on your high pair. Since a hand like KQ suited is stronger on the flop when KQ10 hits than AA. So your goal is to isolate an online poker player, one player, as these hands do better in a heads up pot than they do in a multiway pot. Hands you’d like to play in a multiway pot are suited connectors like KQ or JT suited, but with AA-QQ, you want isolation factor.
If you do get a call after your reraise or initial raise, you’re going to be coming out betting hard on the flop. You want a weaker pair to fold. Yeah, you can extract value, but it’s much safer and +EV to take down the pot right there, and if he wants to call you down, then keep putting on the pressure. Do this with AA or KK and you’ll win a lot more than you’ll get busted by slowplaying them when you’re playing online poker.