Letting go of aces

One of the hardest things to do in poker is to let go of pocket aces. Sometimes, though, it's the right play. In 45,447 hands of MTT-R NLHE, I've received pocket aces 213 times, and have only managed to lay them down 13 times. Seeing as how they were cracked 35 times, I clearly needed to be letting go of them more often. Last night, I was able to fold pocket aces correctly, on a hand where the flop came 6h Qs 6s. Ironically, I lost more chips on that hand than on any other :-) I'm proud of that fold.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

MTT-R NLHE    43500  6500       9    61      65   15    23        0

delta: $-100,000
MTT with rebuys NLHE balance: $33,145,500
2018 balance: $-236,000
balance: $45,277,260