This... this is something I am seeing a lot of... people getting "creative" with aces. Last night, I picked up aces on the bb, there were one or two limps, I chunk it up, and MP 3bets? I thought one of two things...

1) this guy is a FTR reg who has seen my talk about the l/r and is trying to represent aces to me,
or...
2) he has aces too.

I said to myself he might have KK and should play properly, 4betting him blah blah, he shoves, I insta, and... drumroll please... he has aces. Rake party, Stars win.

Now, I am going to start a tally of hands that I see l/raising, because I'm sure that 90%+ of the time it's aces. I saw a few l/r last night, but the only one I saw the showdown was this AA vs AA hand above.

So...

AA - 1

I'll update after tonight's session. I just wanna do this for my own sake really, to keep a record of what hands do it and how often, so I can stop being frightened of AA if I can see enough other hands do it, or to be legitimately frightened of AA if it's only ever AA, or 90%+ like I suspect.