Now We still haven’t talked about AK in limit hold Em yet so I think this is a fine time to start. As we mentioned prevously AK is not very good against multiple opponets. Thats why we make nice big 3x raises in no limit to thin the field. Of course in limit this is completely impossible as quite honestly a 2x raise won’t scare my grandma out of a pot. This is especially true if there were severallimpers ahead of you. In that case raising just tips your hand and raises the pot giving opponents pot odds on the flop to chase you.

So how should you play AK in limit raise early or with no limpers ahead of you. Bet strong if you flop your ace/King. And avoid raising in late position. On occocasion or on tables were no one folds anyway limp with your AK if you flop a strait or trips you AK is well disguised. If you missed the flop completely you can  get out for very little invested.

Playing Ace King in Tournament Poker

Tournaments is one of the places where AK really shine Expecially against GOOD players. This is because if your reallu good players understand that their advantage comes from reads and small pot play. Since that advantage is much bigger than your average player why in the worl would a Dave Skalansky, or Doyle Brunson want to risk their tournament on TT or 99 when they could fold and out play you later. And since AK is unlikely to be dominated it is an excelent Reraise hand Against a player that’s better than you. Even if he turns over Cowboys you still have about one in three chances of winning! Now the reraise stratagey of course doesn’t work out mathematically if the blinds are supper low, because when the pots aren’t big enough they will just fold until they have that High pair and generally that will destroy in small pots that you’ve stolen! Well that’s officially it for AK. I will be writing more about it in the future I’m sure but not in this series. I hope I have given you enough info to play AK well.

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