Tommy definitely has folded aces preflop: http://tommyangelo.com/articles/the-worst-play-ever/
Hello judges. For you today I have made (<-- I've been watching too much CHOPPED!) some excerpts and clarifications...
Here are two pertinent paragraphs from the link above. First, the third paragraph:
But the story I will tell you now is true. It must be, or there would be no point in the telling. I am like an astronaut who walked on the moon and returned to write of feelings unimagined on earth. I am like a man who for years lived alone in a forgotten forest and returned to write of his trials and triumphs. For I am the poker player who longed to fold pocket aces before the flop at $20-40 limit hold’em, and finally did it. Here is my story.
And here is the final paragraph:
Now, one month and a dozen pocket aces later, I can report that I am unchanged by what happened at noon on May 19, table 41, seat nine. I don’t play or think any differently. I am like the moonwalker who returns to say that the earth is indeed round. I am like the wilderness dweller who returns to say that the forest is in fact full of trees. Nothing remains, in mind or matter, from my journey, except that now, when I lift the corners and see ace-ace, it’s like I’m getting winked at.
To clarify, I have never suggested to a client that they fold pocket aces before the flop, and there is nothing in EPTPE about folding aces before the flop.
I see the whole folding-aces-before-the-flop thing as identical to any other private test of will (spontaneous or planned) we might give ourselves. For example, I have a scab on my foot that I haven't touched all day even though I could definitely get some of it to flake away without causing bleeding. Several times it has itched a little, and several times my hand move toward it, and several times I just left it be. Why?
I don't ask that. I mean I don't ask it anymore. I just know, from doing it, that if I mix little moments of discipline in with my default hedonism, I feel better.