Everyone who plays Texas Holdem knows that Ace-King is one of the best opening hands. But, it is simply that, a starting hand. It’s simply two cards of a seven-card formula. In nearly every situation, you want to jump out guns blaring with A-K as your pocket cards. When the flop comes, you need to check out your cards and consider things through before you just deduce that your cards are the greatest.
Like most other situations in texas hold’em, understanding your adversaries will help you gauge your position when you have A-K and see a flop like 9-8-2. After you bet preflop and were called, you assume your opponent is also possessing good cards and the flop might have missed them as badly as it by-passed you. Your assumption will frequently be correct. Also, don’t neglect that most lousy gamblers wouldn’t know good cards if they tripped over them and might have called with A-x and paired the table.
If your opposition checks, you could check and see a free card or lay a wager and attempt to pick the pot up right there. If they wager, you could raise to see if they are in or fold. What you wish to avoid is basically calling your competitor’s wager to see what the turn results in. If any card instead of the Ace or King is shown, you will not know any more information than you did following the flop. So let us say the turn results in a 4 and your opposition bets yet again, what do you do? To call a wager on the flop you had to think your hand was the best, so you must surely believe it remains so. So, you call a bet on the turn and one more on the river to find out that your opposing player was holding ten-eight and only had second pair after the flop. At that instance, it dawns on you that a raise after the flop might have captured the money right then.
A-K is a beautiful thing to find in your hole cards. Just be certain you play them wisely and they’ll achieve you amazing cheerfulness at the poker table.