Poker gems, #197

This is a special two-for-one, because I came across basically the same point expressed by two different people in just a couple of days.


Lee Jones, in Bluff magazine, September, 2008, p. 96:

I think that it may be profitable, if boring, to play PLO in such a way that all you do is wait to suck out on aces. Some PLO players, bless their hearts, never reraise pre-flop unless they have aces. So you call and then if you're beating aces on the flop, you get all the money in.


Jeff Williams, in Card Player magazine interview, December 17, 2008 (vol. 21, #25), p. 26:

You see many players trying to get as much money in as possible before the flop with A-A-X-X hands. I usually make this play only if I can get 35 percent of my stack in preflop, since then you can easily shove in the rest of your money on almost any flop. If you get too little of the money in preflop, all of your opponents know that you have A-A-X-X, and it's quite easy to put only the remaining chips in the pot when they have your hand beat.