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Re: ACE-KING (The death of many a poker player)
I'm not saying it because it's you Jezza but I agree with everything you've just posted there.
When I first started playing poker I raised all the time with this hand pre flop unless a decent raise had been made already in which case I just called. Nowadays I am a lot more cautious pre flop which gives all of the advantages you describe plus it disguises your pocket cards effectively too. Say the flop comes Ah 8h 4s. I would raise here with Ac Kd in order to protect myself against the flush draw. However due to simply calling pre flop I might get a caller or two who don't put me on the top pair - their thinking being 'if he had an ace he would have raised pre flop' (as this is what a lot of new players do.) They might put me on a flush draw or a straight draw. Of course you might be called here by someone who is on a flush draw themselves and then you could get burnt but as long as you make your raise when you are ahead and big enough so that flush and straight drawers don't have the correct pot odds then you can't do any more.
Anyway I digress. Yes Jezza I tend to flat call with AK pre flop nowadays on cash games.
A question in return though.
What would you do if you flat called with AK pre flop and then an all in raise (say 30 x the BB) came in afterwards from a tight player? Assuming you are playing against decent players you might put the opponent on AA here? Can you lay those AK hands down in this situation?
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