Okay... so this randomly popped into my head but started talking to some friends and it got pretty deep so figured I would post it on here and see what everyone thinks.

You get dealt AA every hand in 10 majors... you know you are going to get AA everyhand. How many of the majors do you think you should win?

Also, how would you play? What lines/styles.

Ok GO

shove every hand

I don't think you win any. Any preflop all in action is going to have you way ahead but think about the hands where you get flatted on dry flops and get check/raised etc... It somewhat limits your game. My theory is while you may have AA every hand that pretty much puts you in every hand. I don't see how you can bink anything playing every hand regardless of your holdings... Lol you could just openshove every hand and hope to run like usain but idk... Interesting post

its so so hard to say. there are so many determining factors that contribute to each and every individual marathon of a tournament. i would probably try to get as much money in preflop as possible as often as i could and try not to see too many showdowns. idk. 1/10?

This would make for the most tilty sunday ever...

You would not make it past the first hr in any of them. Ill take JTss every hand.

youre going to win several if not all of them...nobody is going to have nearly as many chips as you so when u do take that inevitable bad beat, its not going to hurt you. your chip stack is going up every hand, no clue what ppl are talkin about postflop play if you knew u were getting AA every hand its just all in preflop all day

i think optimally you should just be open shoving every hand in the early levels. you don't want lots of people seeing flops with speculative hands against you and cracking your aces, esp knowing you are gonna keep getting them for the rest of the tourney. if u aren't gonna shove i would be playing very pot controlly and not trying to get all in for a lot of chips with 1 pair. the other option early is to just limp/raise from early position and then raise/3 bet every hand from late.

the advantage of shoving is that unless someone has KK first hand and then cracks your aces that you will become chip leader and can take a beat and still have chips left. obv peoples ranges for calling would widen but the longer they take to start calling you the more chips you have left after you do take a beat. even if you do have like 5 bbs left or something you do have aces every hand so u can easily come back.

once antes kick in and the stacks are relatively shorter i would just start raising every hand as people would start playing back at u light.

the fact that you would be chip leader for most of the time and need several bad beats in a row virtually to bust means i think you win more tourneys than you lose, even big field major type ones. you also probably bust a ton of people and get your tables broken up a lot so you get moved to new tables with people that don't know what you are doing and get to pick up some small pots for free before getting called.

 

Originally Posted by mathclub

have you played poker before?

he's played online pokah before

 

Originally Posted by MarkFSU1

youre going to win several if not all of them...nobody is going to have nearly as many chips as you so when u do take that inevitable bad beat, its not going to hurt you. your chip stack is going up every hand, no clue what ppl are talkin about postflop play if you knew u were getting AA every hand its just all in preflop all day

Exactly this - you just shove every hand "steal" blinds/antes - if you get AA every hand you obv. aren't worried about "losing value" by shipping preflop - so theoretically just open ship every hand and someone will call you - so as long as you don't get a bad beat really early you are definitely winning the tournament.

Just play absurdly nitty and dont get all pre or all in ever unless your sure you have the best hand. Doesnt matter if you make some bad laydowns because your gonna have aces the next hand anyway.

well AA is gonna be in the neighborhood of 80% in your 1st showdown (which will come pretty quick if you keep shoving) so right away you cant win more than 8 of 10 playing that way

i think the last guy had it right....play very tight and see every flop...you are gonna be lookin at a set of aces pretty much every orbit and if you get it in then you will be far better than 80% so I think that would be the way to win em all

obv you could get sucked out on your 1st showdown and lose but if you play tight early until you have a monster stack, you can then start shoving every hand and take it down pretty easily

When deep I'd fold if ever I was up against someone with a bigger stack than mine. (Assuming you still are healthy and there are smaller stacks around).

You'd win the vast majority of tournies. All you really have to do is avoid busting early and you'll rarely have your tourny life on the line.

 

Originally Posted by JON STAMOZ

I easily go 0-10 losing AIPF the 1st hand of every tourney.

gtfo

This clearly has alot of practical applications....