Jan 17, 2011 Mark Poker Articles, Poker Rules Getting dealt pocket Aces. This is an article about one of the best or worst (depending on the point of view) situations in poker, namely the AA vs KK hand including odds and probabilities for AA vs KK.
The 2019 PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC) is down to its final table, and the way Talal Shakerchi — the chipleader after Day 1 — was eliminated was rough.
He went into an all-in hand with pocket Aces, and Julien Martini called with Ace-Queen of spades, which the booth noted were “so suited.” Foreshadowing!
The flop came out 3-K-2, but the King was a spade. Shakerchi had a 91 percent chance of winning.
Then? Out comes a 10 of spades on the turn. Shakerchi’s chances go to 74 percent and Martini has 10 outs — lots of spades for a flush or a Jack for the straight.
And then the 5 of spades arrives to eliminate a pair of Aces.
Poker Pocket Aces Vs Pocket Aces 3
SO SUITED! Shakerchi did walk away with $509,000, so it’s not all bad.
DECISION POINT: In a $2/$5 no-limit hold'em cash game, a player sitting UTG+2 calls, and you raise from the hijack seat with . It folds back around to the limper who calls your raise, then the flop comes . Your opponent checks, you bet, then your opponent check-raises. The action is on you...
PRO ANSWER: After raising preflop and successfully isolating the limper, our continuation bet on the flop is check-raised by our lone opponent.
Flop check-raises generally represent stronger hand ranges and you should be prepared to fold many one-pair hands against them. However, when determining your hand's relative strength, you must take into account several other postflop factors.
In this hand, we are heads-up, in position, and on a dry flop with less than 100 big blinds in the stacks. All of these factors are favorable for the strength of one-pair hands. In addition, we have the strongest possible one-pair hand — pocket aces.
If the flop were multi-way, more coordinated, or the stacks were deeper, folding may be an option. In this hand we should continue with . Since we will fold out many worse hands than ours if we reraise and there are no real turn scare cards that can come, calling the check-raise is superior to reraising.
We should call and continue to call down as necessary to get to showdown in this hand.
Calling is the best play.
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