Betting on Ace-King in Holdem
Posted in Poker on 07/02/2013 01:21 am by Marley
Everyone who bets in Texas Holdem knows that a-k is one of the greatest starting hands. But, it’s just that, a beginning hand. It is simply two cards of a seven-card formula. In nearly each new situation, you want to jump out guns blaring with A-K as your pocket cards. When the flop arrives, you have to reassess your hand and think things through before you just assume your cards are best.
Like many other circumstances in holdem, understanding your opponents will help you gauge your position when you hold Ace-King and observe a flop like 9-8-2. After you bet preflop and were called, you assume your competitor is also possessing good cards and the flop might have by-passed them as poorly as it by-passed you. Your assumption will frequently be right. Also, do not omit that most bad gamblers would not know good cards if they fall over them and possibly could have called with Ace-Something and paired the table.
If your opposing player checks, you might check and observe a free card or place a bet and attempt to grab the pot up right there. If they bet, you could raise to see if they’re for real or fold. What you want to avoid is basically calling your opponent’s bet to observe what the turn gives rise to. If any card instead of the Ace or King is shown, you will not have any more information than you did after the flop. Let us say the turn results in a 4 and your opponent wagers again, what do you do? To call a bet on the flop you need to anticipate your hand was the strongest, so you have to surely believe it remains so. So, you call a bet on the turn and 1 more on the river to discover that your opposing player was holding ten-eight and only had second pair following the flop. At that instance, it dawns on you that a raise the bet after the flop could have captured the money right there.
A-K is a gorgeous thing to find in your hole cards. Just be certain you play them carefully and they’ll bring you awesome cheerfulness at the poker table.