Folds all round to delt premiums

Folds all round to delt premiums

When I'm delt premiums (in the big blind especially,and especially holding AA) ,everyone tanks,then fold fold fold.... happens nearly 90% of the time and on some occasions when I actually get action I experience a stupid suckout from a maniac.I always mix it up with either a limp,min raise or x3.Makes no difference though. I'm beginning to think that people play this game of 'incomplete information' so much that their intuition has developed into knowing when someone is holding strong. Sure there are times when two people at the table make stupid moves on my big blind and run into bad news but hardly happens compared to folds.

03 August 2025 at 10:35 AM
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That shouldn’t matter but just of of curiosity - which site you’re playing on?


There's a separate bad beat forum for this stuff.


by Darth_Maul

There's a separate bad beat forum for this stuff.

Yes, but I think he’s looking for a psychological support here, I’ve been there too, even a couple days ago when implying that GG somehow manipulates the board cards to induce action. When I was looking for “gg rigged” on yt, I came across some great strategy advice and most importantly learned that you can switch your table layout to BB which I didn’t even know was possible and that changed my game drastically. As pot the OP, play enough hands and you’ll get your pots with aces, there’s only one way to overcome variance, and it’s consistency.


by Monkeymana

When I'm delt premiums (in the big blind especially,and especially holding AA) ,everyone tanks,then fold fold fold.... happens nearly 90% of the time and on some occasions when I actually get action I experience a stupid suckout from a maniac.I always mix it up with either a limp,min raise or x3.Makes no difference though. I'm beginning to think that people play this game of 'i

Also waiting for AA is a bad sign, you’re missing the point. I usually win more post with like 93s than with AA cause on the river I have nuts against you and you’re sticking to your top pair. Yesterday I folded KK on the turn with no A on the board. Poker is situational, not predetermined


This sites as bad as card chat lol.. donkies!


Part of the reason why there are so many folds when you have AA is that you block all AJ+ hands as well as AXs hands. PP's are somewhat rare in that 1 out of 17 hands will be a PP and again lowish PP's often don't call raises.

The other thing I think you should consider is making all of your pre-flop bet sizes the same based on your effective stack size. What I do is when I am over 100 bb's I make it 3x. When I am between 50 and 100 bb's I make it 2.5x. And when I am < 50 bb's I will be min raising at 2.1x. When you don't do something like this people can make reads based on your sizing. When you do this and people are folding they will be folding regardless of what you have (assuming you have a balanced preflop raising range) and will be calling or raising based on what they have.

Similarly your sizing after limpers can be critical as well. When I have > 100 bb's my sizing will always be 3.5x + 1x for every limper + 1x if I am in a blind. Between 50 and 100 bb's it will be 3x +1x per limper + 1x if I am in a blind. And when I am < 50 blinds I will make it 2.5x + 1x for every limper + 1x if I am in a blind.

This year in the WSOP $1,000 Seniors event in the first level where blinds were 100/100 with a 100 BB ante there was a limper and I made it 500 (because we didn't have any 25 chips). Two players called behind me and the limper called. The flop was 234 and it checked through. The turn was a K and the limper bet 1600. I called and the other two guys folded. The river was a 3 and the limper bet 3000. I thought he could have 65s or A5 (which I blocked) but I hoped he had a hand like K2s/K4s/55 and I ended up calling and losing to A5o. I probably should have folded to the river bet because there was a K on board and that didn't deter him. Then a couple of levels later the same thing happened. The same guy limped and I decided to limp behind him with AA. There were two callers and the BTN raised to like 1700. The blinds and the limper folded and I thought about it for a little bit and then jammed with like 13,000 (we started with 20,000). Folded to the BTN who tank called with 55 and I held and knocked him out.


Wow I feel like we just went back to 2010 😃

To summarise the advice from the time machine;

1. Event clusters will happen.
2. It’s human nature to notice bad event clusters, while ignoring the good ones.
3. There is no financial incentive for online poker sites to rig games in favour of one set of players over another - in fact, the opposite is true, they could destroy their investment overnight by doing so.

You’ve got some magical thinking going on there OP.


Playing live I never look at my cards if I get a walk…

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