 Re: STT - AA first hand
I stand corrected on the multi-way EV thing - I'd always assumed it remained (proportionally) the same. Big error on my part!
As far as aces heads up go though, I was thinking about this recently. My theory is something like this:
If you're not playing them heads up it's generally because you're not putting in a significant pre-flop raise. That means you're getting calls from suited connectors/medium pocket pairs etc. They're only going to continue to call you if they hit (and thus normally have you beat) - but they're easily thrown away when they miss. The maxim is something like 'you win less often but you win more' when people talk about playing aces multi-way, but I think you just win less often because in terms of the real dynamics of the game people aren't paying you when you're ahead. And even in situations where you are ahead and have some muppet calling you with an underpair or for the hell of it, unless you've hit a set or some such you can't really bet with enough confidence to get paid in such a way that it'd show the same kind of profitability as heads-up play. |