Joined: Oct '08
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Last week i was in a tourney on pokerstars. there were 150 people and the buy in was 16$. The first hand i was the dealer, and got aces! 5 people went all-inn, excluding me. Have to call or?.....
Edited by imbigfishy (07 October 2008 @ 11:21 GMT)
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think i understand,you had AA,and 5 people went all in,so you folded.in my book,start of a tourney,was a good lay down.cost you what 25/50blinds mabie.bahh.5 allins is bingopoker even with AA.UNLESS was a rebuy,then go for it and rebuy...
I think you did the rigt thing... Against 5 people AA is not so good. You need also luck to win if you have so many players in game. I'm sure that you have folded and if you didn't you have won... Am i right?? Don't worry, you will surely have your chance so...
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Out of all hands in Texas hold em AA is the absolute best starting hand. If you get 5 monkeys all in ive would be jumping for joy. Off course you have to do that call. First of all you get 5 times your money. And with AA you win almost 2/3 av all hands That is odds worth taking Good luck next time
You dont have to call, but I would always call that one. Although youre gonna bust out often, but hej: 150 players in the tourney, so you need approximately 15 stacks for the final table. 5 could have been yours after the first hand, with the best possible starting hand.
mhm...i think that you play very well. right hand!! ..yes AA is the best starting hand at texas holdem but there were 5 players in all in...more difficult...but great fold
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In a freeroll it would have been a no brainer call. But at 16 bucks buy in it depends on how you can live with the variance. You will lose more often then you win against 5 opponentes, even with aces.
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I think i'd have called but given some thoughts a good laydown. as stated above 5 players is too much, chance of one of them getting straight set or anything is too high.
..yes AA is the best starting hand at texas holdem but there were 5 players in all in...more difficult...but great fold 
