the Donkey of Poker

How often have you read on a forum post “don’t slow play aces”, Why not?
Whats wrong with slow playing a big hand, being in any position for that matter but of all positions playing a big hand on the button has its advantages to slow play.

A big hand for this lesson is going to be example:
AA-to-AQs for Holdem and AAKK-to-AKsQJs for Omaha High

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The second week of the Assistanc3Online Forum League was played on Thursday July 16th, this game being a $2 buyin with $50 guaranteed.  The game started with 17 players but with late registration open a couple players sneaked in the overlay tournament to make 19.  Points were on the line and players were looking for a win.
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It was a rolling of the red carpet and the 72 tonight in Ray’s 2 Year Anniversary of his poker site, pokerfriends.  The two was for the the years and the seven is the amount of shots I took before this game.  It was an adventure and I even did an offer to chop which I have actually never done before.  Did it go to a chop or the river?
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My third of four tournaments I qualified for on Full Tilt Poker to play in a $1000 Freeroll after making the top 2000 in points.  Erik Seidel was my only cashing player who him alone got me enough points to gain entry, which is really surprising that more contestants didn’t have him in their pool.

The Game: Pot Limit Holdem
Poker Replay: Letting Them Draw on You

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Playing the $3,750 GTD on Carbon Poker knowing I was going to be needing some addon money for the Sunday $109 buyin $50,000 GTD cashing out this game was a must, I am already registered next week with my coupon I won.

Closing down all my messenger programs and open up Firefox to tweet my involved hands (donkeyofpoker tweets) I was ready to play and focus on getting into the money.
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