Quote Originally Posted by Fnord
Also, if you're regularly playing in 200bb+ games with passive opponents, wrecklessly stacking off with AA can be a pretty big leak.
+1

Wasn't it Doyle Brunson who said AA is the only hand worth going broke over? Now doesn't this statement completely contradict his whole idea of AK over AA? There aren't many situations I would prefer AK over AA.

I just can't see it. Even after a drawy-type flop, you're still going to be ahead with AA or KK most of the time.

AK is a TPTK/drawing-type hand. The only reason I see Doyle making this statement is that he knows it's easy to let AK go on a shit flop and lose a small pot, rather than a large one holding AA or KK. It almost sounds like he was stating he's afraid of getting sucked out on, which doesn't sound like Doyle at all.[/i]