Playing Ace/King in Hold’em
Everyone who participates in hold’em understands that a-k is one of the greatest starting hands. But, it is simply that, an opening hand. It’s just 2 cards of a seven-card formula. In just about each new situation, you will want to come out guns blaring with Ace-King as your pocket cards. When the flop comes, you have to check out your cards and think things through before you just suppose your cards are best.
Like most other situations in hold’em, knowing your opponents will assisting you in gauging your position when you hold Ace-King and see a flop like nine-eight-two. After you bet preflop and were called, you presume your opponent is also possessing good cards and the flop may have by-passed them as badly as it missed you. Your assumption will often times be right. Also, do not omit that most bad players would not understand excellent cards if they happen over them and might have called with Ace-x and paired the table.
If your opponent checks, you might check and observe a free card or place a bet and try to grab the pot up right there. If they bet, you might raise to see if they’re in or fold. What you wish to avert is basically calling your opponent’s bet to see what the turn results in. If any card other than and Ace or King hits, you will not have any more information than you did after the flop. So let’s say the turn shows a 4 and your opposition bets once more, what should you do? To call a wager on the flop you had to think your hand was the greatest, so you have to truly believe it still is. So, you call a wager on the turn and one more on the river to find out that your opposition has a hand of 10-8 and just a second pair after the flop. At that point, it hits you that a raise the bet following the flop might have won the pot right then.
Ace-King is a beautiful thing to find in your hole cards. Just be sure you compete in them intelligently and they will bring you awesome happiness at the poker table.