Everyone who plays texas hold’em understands that ace/king is one of the greatest opening hands. But, it’s simply that, a beginning hand. It is simply 2 cards of a 7-card formula. In nearly each new situation, you’ll want to come out guns blaring with A-K as your pocket cards. When the flop arrives, you must to reassess your cards and think things completely before you just presume your overcards are the strongest.
Like many other circumstances in texas hold’em, understanding your rivals will help you gauge your situation when you hold A-K and observe a flop like 9-8-2. Since you wager preflop and were called, you presume your competitor is also holding great cards and the flop might have missed them as badly as it missed you. Your assuming will often times be correct. Also, do not forget that most poor competitors would not know good cards if they tripped over them and possibly could have called with A-x and paired the poker table.
If your opponent checks, you could check and observe a free card or place a bet and attempt to pick the pot up right then. If they bet, you can raise to see if they are in or fold. What you want to avoid is simply calling your competitor’s wager to see what the turn brings. If any card other than and Ace or King is shown, you won’t have any more info than you did following the flop. Now let us say the turn results in a four and your competitor bets yet again, what should you do? To call a bet on the flop you need to anticipate your hand was the strongest, so you must truly think it still is. So, you call a wager on the turn and one more on the river to discover that your opposing player was holding 10-8 and just a second pair after the flop. At that moment, it dawns on you that a raise after the flop might have won the money right there.
Ace-King is a wonderful combination to see in your hole cards. Just be sure you wager on them astutely and they can achieve you great cheerfulness at the poker table.
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