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If you have the best pre-flop hand and one opponent shoved before you. Perfect scenario for Aces. What can stop you here to call? I guess nothing. You have to call. Well, if you lose then it was not your tournament.

Exception is when you are in the middle or close to the end of the tournament when, for instance, 100 people qualify for some other tournament and, let say, 120 people left. If you are a big-to-massive stack, then folding will be the right move because here the target is not to win the tournament, but to be in the top 100. If your winning chances are at max 85% against 72 off-suit, you qualification chance is close to 100%.

I clearly do not understand people advocating folding aces. It is very weak play to fold Aces in your situation.


ProPokerTools can answer all your questions. Ironically AA is stronger against the other strongest hands (AKs, KK, QQ etc) than it is against middling hands like 78s or JQs

Basically don't ever fold your AA in any HU situation

  • This conclusion, "don't ever fold your AA in any HU situation" is wrong. Although it might be right to call here. There are situations. [You have 10 BB, two reckless opponents who are regularly playing for stacks every five hands or so. They have 10000 BB. 80%-20%-0% payout. You shouldn't even look at your cards here, just fold. Even Aces heads up.] – John Dee Feb 28 '18 at 10:44

The ROI is the return on investment . It's the same as the expected value, or EV.

It's a GIVEN in this question, so we'll just have to assume that we accept the number and it's based on some kind of fact of reality. Perhaps years of results. BTW, this would mean - on average - the Hero is earning $30k, on a $10k event. This is obviously WAY BEYOND THE PALE for a real life situation. But let's just assume it's true: you're a poker player who earns 300% on his money every time he sits down to play. Perhaps you're playing with retarded people, or you're cheating children. Let's run with it...

Mason Malmuth has already shown how to do similar math. Normally this question is formulated along the lines of:

What is the EV for Strategy1 vs Strategy2?

Notice in this example, the OP never mentioned the number of entrants. It's impossible to answer the standard question without knowing the number of entrants.

Since we already know the EV. What don't we know? We don't know what he's doing to be this Mr. Super Beast with a +300% ROI! He's almost certainly cheating, or something like that. Probably then you should dump the aces, because you'll have way better than 4:1 chances in the future, and since you can see through the cards or something, you should wait.

The fact we can calculate the odds of winning hands against these particular ranges [4:1 and 3:2 respectively], doesn't give us enough information to calculate the answer to the question.

Again, Malmuth has shown how to answer this if we assume we don't know, a priori, the EV of the Hero. That is, if you assume everyone has the same skill level, you can do this calculation. I'll leave that for another day! However, in this case we are given the Hero is some sort of savant. We know that's not because of his normal, that is average skill, so we can't answer strategy questions. We don't know what kind of game he is playing!

So the answer is: IT DEPENDS ON WHATEVER STRATEGY IS GENERATING THIS RETURN ON INVESTMENT. You cannot calculate it in the standard way, vis-a-vi Malmuth, which assumes equal skill.

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