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Do you often overbet with giant pairs on the flop like this? It could become dangerous at higher levels, because up there a call means you're beat. You won't get called by AT on a higher skill table. You'll get called by TT.
You need to learn not to put meaningless money in the middle. Overbetting is bad unless you have a super loose image, or you know your opponents to be super loose. Either way, someone has to call your overbet with a worse hand more often than they don't to make it correct.
What you're showing me is a pattern I see often called the overconfident high pocket. Getting married to high pockets can ruin the enourmous value they hold, and committing yourself without info can also do the same. Put it this way. Against a competent opponent, they're going to know what you have once you bet 10xBB preflop. They now have an advantage. Now they can base how much more money they put in the middle on the fact that they know you have a high pocket.
Did you see the guy at the WSOP that bet 20xBB preflop with AA? Blinds were 25/50, and he threw 1,000 in the middle. Sammy Farha was sitting with 20,000 chips in front of him holding 33. He just smiled and called. Of course when the flop came all rags with a 3. AA guy checked and Farha pushed all-in like he had TT or JJ. The guy called with AA all confident about it and lost his whole stack. He forgot about what his opponent thought he had.
Start thinking about what your opponents are putting you on. This overbet nonsense will become unprofitable past 25NL.
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