RE: Poker Tip Man Armen-"Under The Gun" with Pocket Rockets
Here are specific things I will point out about this post:
The best practice; playing under the gun with aces is to min-raise. This sends a message to your opponents.
There is no mention of many important pieces of information: how many players at the table, how many BB most players have, cash game or tournament, what your range of hands is in this spot, what people will play against your UTG range, and what you do with other hands. These are things that you have to know before stating something like "minraise aces UTG".
Inexperienced players will most likely test you with a reraise holding a mediocre hands like KJ or AJ. This is your opportunity to 3 bet and build the pot preflop.
If someone reraises you that is a 3bet. If you then reraise back that is a 4bet (he called it a 3bet). Not knowing this is a very strong indication he is not a professional poker player, and was not something he could have just messed up.
At the same time isolate the inexperienced player by getting everyone else to fold. Once you got the fish hooked, go ahead and chomp it down.
How do you do that when you minraise? You are asking for multiple people to call a small raise. The bb will almost always come along vs a minraise, and a few players at a 9 handed table will too. Minraising utg is asking for the pot to go 3-4 way.
Basically this post contained a very cursory overview of an extremely specific situation in poker and missed out on tons of important things to note, and actually gives wrong advice for a number of situations: generally you want to 3x UTG with your entire range in cash games, and aces is included in that.
I would like proof this person is a professional poker player, and I'm sure if I show this article to 10 professionals right now all 10 would say it's not worthy of even being in a Hold'em for Dummies book.
For the record, as someone who played professionally for many years and still writes strategy for a number of sites, I wholeheartedly support everything @daut44 & @sigmajin are saying. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news @steemed, but if you're partial to poker content I'd be happy to begin posting more of it here as well.
seriously?! wow. so many poker players on here! welcome :)
When I said min-raise UTG with aces it applies to poker in general weather its a cash game or a tournament. Not to a short game or the final 2 tables in a tournament. I understand there are many other factors, but the post refers to general terms when holding aces UTG. As far as a 3 bet, you are correct I ment to write 4 bet. (Thanks for pointing out, i will make the correction) I still firmly believe going 2x is the way to go...try it before you knock it as I've tried 3x and found that 2x is better with aces UTG. For some reason, with a 2x raise people almost always test you with a 3 bet; which is something you want. If you read the last part of the post, you can see that the point is to play agressive or big in late position not UTG, unless you can go head's up . You dont need to ask 10 pros you can just ask Chris Ferguson on how to play aces UTG. Thanks for your time and constructive criticism.
I don't mean to disparage your poker skill, and do hope you continue posting here, as this platform is in dire need of more poker content, but I don't think you should post technical advice blogs and don't think they should receive huge rewards as I think it's weak strategy. I've played millions of hands of poker, have been a professional player for 10 years, done coaching on both in game play and game theory approaches, and also made videos for training sites and I think spreading correct and sound information to new players is important.
But I would love to hear some poker stories from players of all levels, and you definitely have experience playing poker, so write up some fun stories and people will enjoy them. Followed you :)