Aces in the small blind, deep in the Sunday Millions

I’m calling. The ultra-shortstack in this hand is really just an annoyance - I’m happy to take what little chips he has left, but he causes a whole lot more trouble than he’s worth here. The only thing he functionally serves to do is make the BB respect a raise from us a lot more (which we of course don’t want in this situation).
I think the BB is folding a strong majority of the time here to any raise, because of the short stack situation. He’ll know we’ve got some kind of hand if we’re raising and will bow out before we get a chance to do any more damage.

If we ignore the half a blind put in by the short stack, we’ve got a heads up pot with the BB. I’m more than happy to slowplay my aces heads up and see what I can milk them for.
So since a) I’m pretty sure the BB is usually folding to a raise here, and b) I’m not worrying about having my aces cracked in a heads up pot, I won’t put in a raise to protect - I think it’ll do more harm than good.

Calling here. If he raises I’ll push back, but in the far more likely event he checks, I’ll lead on juicy flops and CR dry ones.

I would do as the staff, allthough it appearently turned out wrong in the game.

I voted to call, but there really isn’t much of a difference in my eyes between the options of raising and calling. But, I will say that calling at least might allow you to trap some more money into the pot should our BB villain flop top pair or something. But, if he flops two pair or trips, are we going to be able to let go of our aces here?

Raising is the safest play, but calling is probably the more profitable. Of course, higher risk, higher reward.

One other comment–I think this is a great spot to isolate with any two cards. Of course, we’re going to lose a little credibility at the table when we turn up our rags here, but I still think it’s a good move. The BB is folding most hands here and even if we lose the main pot, we’re still going to win money (about $26k from the BB). And, we’ll only be risking $4k of our own money into a pot of about $136k. Nothing like getting about 34-1 on our money there. At that price, 72o looks great. And, in fact, 72o would have been ahead!

So, while I advocate calling here with AA/KK, I’m pretty much raising any other two cards. If the BB catches a hand and re-raises, I’ll re-evaluate, but here is a great spot to get our money in with some great odds, if we can get the BB out of the hand.

It seems to me that AA likes getting cracked whenever I try slow-playing them. However, it would be nice to get a little more money into the pot. I voted to call hoping that the BB hits top pair on the flop and overplays it. If any draws come out on the flop, I would definitely put in a pot sized bet. Otherwise I would probably check hoping for a re-raise opportunity.

Yes Ally I’m greedy - I’ll call here and then come over the top of the BB if he raises just to steal some dead money - ah what fun the options are with AA and a big stack!

I don’t much like calling here. Obviously, the approach here should be to extract maximum value out of BB. The problem with calling here is that you’re going to end up with a fairly dry side pot (~$50k) post-flop, assuming the BB checks. I think it will be difficult to extract further bets under that set of circumstances. I advocate putting in a modest raise ($150k to $200k), not so much for isolation as to seed the side pot for further betting rounds.