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[QUOTE="Aballinamion, post: 6657134, member: 289533"]
Thanks for your question! We play AA the same way we play the rest of our range, there’s no mystery. We shouldn’t consider AA or AK different hands, for example, James “Splitsuit” Sweeney has an entire book on how to play AK. 
The title is “optimizing AK” or something, and I don’t like this book or the idea behind it: we shouldn’t play these hands differently, though they have nice odds: AA is the only nutted hand preflop and AK will have plenty of odds versus any hand, except AA. 
You can go all-in preflop with AA and lose. You can raise 10 blinds preflop and still lose: we are going to lose with AA 15-20% of times so we have to be wise about it. 
Because many times we are going to open AA and get folds. We are going to 3-bet and 4-bet and get folds. And when we go with AA postflop we get coolered. 
Let’s assume we play AA 10 times in a sample of nearly 2000 hands: 4 times people folded preflop, 4 times we won small pots of 10 to 20 blinds and the last two times we went all in and end up losing 200 blinds: is this optimal? 
Of course that in the long run we are winning, but we must play 20000 hands to see this result, not only 2000. 
My advice is that you play it the same way you would play JTo, 44, or any other hand in your range. 
We are neither going all in preflop nor slow playing it: neither options are good, we are going to play postflop observing the holistic scenario and behavior of the board and of the opponent, so we can decide if we are jamming, slow playing or whatever.
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