by rdale » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:28 am
It depends on my opponents and table texture. Crazy overly aggressive and super loose preflop AA KK seems to do great when I whack it all in, loose and passive table and suited connectors and small pairs hitting sets work great, tight passive opponents and what ever two I have in late are +EV. If one category is under or over performing in my PT right now it is probably due to short term luck and I haven't had the opportunity to apply them correctly. KK is an underperformer at the moment as it hasn't been a good two months for the cowboys, 86s is ballistic but who is counting because AA is still rocking, while QQ is undefeated for the first four weeks of my new database.
Today I dragged monster pots with KJd in a raised pot from the SB flopping two pair vs. an over played AA. Another monster was TT flopping top set with a weak lead in a raised pot vs. KTh, he broke himself. Another monster pot was 99 and moving two people in preflop, short stack won with two pair T6 and guy I was trying to isolate had 88, I had him pegged for overs to any pair and I'm willing to flip a coin for a half stack if he is. I raised up 83o from the big blind today and took down a great pot on the flop with a bluff. That was a huge pot for the hand, you can build your own monsters if every thing is order and you are aware of your opponents.
Monsters are relative to the board and the ability to play well post flop will make more and more reasonable hands into monsters. On the whole I would rather be playing 75s than AA, I'm rarely able to do the trapping with rockets and will find a snare or two along the way from an opponent that I can't fold an over pair that makes two pair on the river with K3o that would call all in with just the 3..
I guess I like them all, if I'm getting a chance to play them and am playing them well.