Gambling on A-K in Hold’em
Posted in Poker on 02/09/2013 11:21 am by Jessie
Everyone who plays holdem knows that ace/king 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 every situation, you’ll want to jump out guns blaring with Ace-King as your pocket cards. When the flop comes, you must to reassess your cards and consider things through before you just assume your overcards are best.
Like most other situations in holdem, understanding your rivals will assisting you in gauging your situation when you hold Ace-King and observe a flop like nine-eight-two. After you wager preflop and were called, you presume your competitor is also holding good cards and the flop might have missed them as badly as it by-passed you. Your assuming will often times be precise. Also, do not omit that many lousy folks wouldn’t understand good cards if they tripped over them and might have called with Ace-x and paired the community board.
If your opposition checks, you might check and see a free card or place a bet and try to grab the pot up right there. If they wager, you can raise to observe if they are for real or fold. What you wish to avert is basically calling your competitor’s wager to see what the turn results in. If any card other than and Ace or King is shown, you won’t have any more information than you did after the flop. Now let us say the turn brings a 4 and your opposition wagers yet again, what should you do? To call a bet on the flop you must believe your hand was the strongest, so you have to surely believe it still is. So, you call a bet on the turn and one more on the river to figure out that your opposing player has a hand of ten-eight and just a second pair following the flop. At that time, it dawns on you that a raise following the flop might have captured the money right there.
Ace-King is a gorgeous thing to see in your hole cards. Just be certain you play them astutely and they’ll bring you great happiness at the poker table.