AA first hand in a freeroll

I'm not folding AA... But against 3 people the chances aren't so good...

Heroes are made not born. If you want a nice stack have to gamble on freeroll there is always someone how wants to take his chance and if he get lucky at least it's very dignityfull way to go.

I usually raise pre flop when i have AA to get out those who have not a good hand but they get it on the flop.
And if i have to fold A A , i do.
See ya!

[arjonius]

Since this specifically deals with freerolls, it seems to me that anyone who's still playing them, myself included, probably has things they can do to improve their games that are far more important and beneficial than focusing on what to do with AA first hand; mathematically, this will happen once in every 220 or so freerolls you play.

[StarTrek]

Originally Posted by giraug

I am learning to fold AA, but on freerolls it would depend on my position and how many all-ins before me... if I will play against 1 or 2 more players I usually take the risk... if there are more than 2 all-ins I let it go... most times get busted.

wow

cant believe that - I know AA KK busted hurts, but I'd rather loose with the best hand preflop - hands-down, I have layed down AA or KK befor but never preflop, and only to someone I respect. ST

Originally Posted by MmM

I'll never fold AA in a freeroll, if the hand is first one it's better too...people think you're going to gamble with nothing...if you start to think to fold AA cause you fear gamblers you can't win a freeroll...this is my humble opinion

I agree
with your opinion - its a good one

Originally Posted by fetscom

I'm still new (and as such, still suck!) so I play as many freerolls as I can to get better these days...

For me, pocket As are still just a pair. Great start sure-- but only 29% of the hand, at most, by the end of the deal. And with 3 people going All-In against 'em..?

In that first 20 minutes of the Freerolls I've played, as many as a 3rd of the players blast out trying to steal an early lead. I just try to survive that stretch; doubling up, or even tripling up, in the 1st ten minutes has never helped me in the 2nd or 3rd hour.

Thats a good way to look at it - no point in leading in the 1st hand when theres 2 hours to play

[dandansoncom]

Well to win in freeroll you will need to call allin in the first half hour every time you have a great hand especially AA ,
I know you might have lots of call but usually freeroll have lots of players and they will call with anything ,, if you can stack up earlier it is better , you will have more chips to call "allin bingo players"..
Im telling this cause i don t want to lose time in freeroll so if i can stack up earlier i know i have chance to make final and if i get bust , i havent lost 3h knowing i wont make money cause my stack was all the way low and the blinds will kill me..

[ray101bassman]

depends to much on your position to many times get beat when halve or better call. 1 or 2 players fine call all day long. But learned along time ago it's a freeroll they have nothing to lose. If your a good play you don't need to call right out of the gate. Wait watch you will get there chips.

[dogma]

The simple way to play AA in a freeroll is to play them aggressively. The question was simple AA 1st hand what do you do. Well my thinking is this - this is the best starting hand to get a double/triple up straight away. Usually in the majority of freerolls you will have the calling stations so you have to use them now. Raise it big not all in yet, that however will happen. You dont fold AA preflop, even if 3/4 of the table have gone in before you. Anyway half your stake should be put in to either weed out alright players or get the pushers into the pot, which you will get in a freeroll. This then makes your call for the rest of your stack an easy decision. Then it is upto crossing your fingers and hoping that they hold up. Many times they do and you are upto 5K from 1K and so you can play your normal style without being pressurised. If you go out to 7 3 calling station, well there is always the next freeroll. This works well for all low stakes freerolls, higher stakes probably not so much as you would be more than likely to be up against a better quality of player (ie your 50K freeroll which you spent the best part of a month to qualify for etc) but the starting situation should be the same, raise it big, 10 times the big blind at least, you want to weed out the limpers and only go up against other strong hands which you are currently beating with AA. You will rarely be put all in preflop in the higher stakes freerolls as more people want to last longer and have gone through a lot more to get into those games. Rambled on a bit, but though I would open up my mind a bit and let if flow for a while

Gotta play it...you can get unlucky with AA, but you are even more likely to get unlucky with some other hand.