What Are the Chances – Big Slick Suited
by Emelia on Friday, November 30th, 2012
Every single list of hold em commencing hands has Massive Slick suited (Ace-Kings in poker shorthand) near the top. It can be a incredibly powerful beginning hand, and one that shows a profit over time if wagered well. But, it really is not a made hand by itself, and cannot be treated like one.
Let us look at several of the odds involving Ace-Kings prior to the flop.
Towards any pair, even a lowly pair of twos, Massive Slick at greatest a coin flip. Sometimes it’s a slight underdog because when you don’t create a hand using the board cards, Ace high will lose to a pair.
Against hands like Ace-Queen or Kq where you’ve the increased of the cards in the opposing hand "covered", Ace-Kings is roughly a 7 to 3 favorite. That is about as good as it gets pre-flop with this hand. It is as good as taking Aks up in opposition to 72 offsuit.
Towards a much better hand, say Jack-Ten suited, your likelihood are roughly 6 to 4 in your favor. Far better than a coin flip, except perhaps not as significantly of a favorite as you would think.
When the flop lands, the value of your hand will most likely be made clear. In case you land the best pair for the board, you’ve got a major advantage with a major pair/top kicker situation. You are going to generally win bets put in by gamblers with the same pair, but a lesser kicker.
You’ll also beat fine beginning hands like Queen-Queen, and Jack-Jack if they do not flop their three-of-a-kind. Not to mention that when you flop a flush or even a flush draw, you is going to be drawing to the nut, or greatest achievable flush. These are all things that produce AKs such a nice starting hand to have.
But what if the flop comes, and misses you. You’ll still have 2 overcards (cards higher than any of individuals on the board). What are your likelihood now for catching an Ace or perhaps a King around the turn or the river and salvaging your hand? Obviously this only works if a pair is able to salvage the hand and will be good enough to win the pot.
If the Ace or King you’d like to see land for the board doesn’t also fill in someone else’s straight or flush draw, you would have six cards (3 outstanding Kings and 3 outstanding Aces) that can give you the major pair.
With those six outs, the odds of getting your card about the turn are roughly 1 in 8, so if you’re preparing on throwing cash into the pot to chase it, look for at least 7 dollars in there for just about every 1 dollar you are willing to bet to keep the pot chances even. People likelihood tend not to change a great deal on the river.
Although playing poker by the likelihood doesn’t guarantee that you’ll succeed each and every hand, or even each and every session, not knowing the chances can be a dangerous situation for anyone at the poker table which is thinking of risking their money in a pot.
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