Everyone who gambles in texas hold’em knows that ace/king is one of the best starting hands. But, it’s simply that, a starting hand. It is just 2 cards of a seven-card equation. In just about every situation, you’ll want to come out firing with A-K as your pocket cards. When the flop arrives, you have to reassess your cards and consider things through before you just assume your cards are the greatest.
Like most other situations in holdem, understanding your adversaries will help you gauge your situation when you hold Ace-King and see a flop like nine-eight-two. Since you wager preflop and were called, you presume your opponent is also holding great cards and the flop might have by-passed them as badly as it by-passed you. Your assumption will often times be correct. Also, don’t overlook that most lousy players wouldn’t know excellent cards if they fall over them and might have called with Ace-Something and paired the board.
If your opposing player checks, you could check and observe a free card or make a wager and try to pick the pot up right then. If they wager, you could raise to see if they’re for real or fold. What you want to avert is simply calling your competitor’s wager to see what the turn results in. If any card other than and Ace or King is turned over, you will not have any more info than you did after the flop. So let’s say the turn results in a four and your competitor bets yet again, what will you do? To call a bet on the flop you had to believe your hand was the greatest, so you must surely believe it remains so. So, you call a bet on the turn and one more on the river to discover that your opposing player has a hand of ten-eight and only had second pair following the flop. At that moment, it dawns on you that a raise the bet following the flop could have won the money right then.
Ace-King is a beautiful thing to see in your hole cards. Just be certain you participate in them intelligently and they will achieve you amazing happiness at the poker table.