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发帖数: 121 | 1 In higher stakes game, most players are fairly aggressive. Aggressive poker
is good poker right? Well.. not always true, but unless you are playing
against true maniacs, aggressive is usually right since we just don't make
that many strong hands in Holdem, you have to win your share of the pots
where no one has a strong hand to stay afloat of the rake and blinds.
So back to the topic, why you see AK being played so aggressively preflop by
most good players? Ready?...
Reason #1) It's a damn good hand.. simple as that, unless you are against a
range like AA/KK/AK, you are never that far behind with AK. So getting it
allin with AK preflop is usually a fine result unless it's super deep.
Reason #2) Poor implied oods after flop, AK is strong hand preflop but not
that great after flop, we all heard the phrase "You must have AK" from our
opponents from time to time. At all levels of player, whenever you make
some strong play after flop, the chances are that the most likely hand your
opponent put you on is AK. So it's hard to extract value when you do have
that hand, and if you flop a TPTK hand and your opponent is giving you a lot
of action, you might be beat already. After all, he knows that "you must
have AK". Oh, and let's not forget that you will have just A high on the
flop about 2/3 of the time.
Reason #3) Balance your range, any paired hands in holdem has 6 combination,
while unpaired hand has 16 combination. So if you don't have AK in your
3bet, 4bet, 5bet range, then you better have a super tight range in those
spots or people will know that you are just bluffing too much. Besides,
because of card removal effect, if you have AK, instead of 6 combos of As
and Ks, your opponent will only have 3 combos of those hands each.
But wait, some will say, I don't 3bet/4bet AK because my opponent will fold
out all worse hands and only give me action with Qs+. Well, this might be
true against very bad opponents, but in that case, you should be able to win
against him so easily you don't have to care about AK at all. If he's that
tight against 3bet, then either he's super tight in raising, so just don't
give him any action without a hand that can crack big hands, fold your QJ,KQ
to his raise, and call with 22/33/56s type of hands. Or he raises a fair
amount but fold to 3bet most of the time, well.. here you just call with all
reasonable hands like QJ/TJs, and 3bet the heck out of him with the top of
your folding range, whichever that would be (86o/T7s/K5s/K9o...).
Even when I play low stakes live games, I will be very aggressive with AK
preflop in most cases because I often have a laggy image on the table. The
only time I remember I flatted a raise with AK was once in a 2/5 game, when
an aggressive player opened on CO, and I just sit down few hands ago, and I
was sitting on the button. Big blind seemed aggressive and he only had
about 150 in front of him. CO and I are 700 deep. I called on the button
for
1) deception -- I think I can get a lot of value out of weaker Ax hand if
Ace flopped because CO won't put me on AK usually.
2) more importantly, I thought there is a good chance BB would just shove if
I called and CO of course not going to fold for just 150 when there is like
$90 dead money in the pot, and then I can back raise allin if CO called or
raised.
but those are very rare instance where I believe calling preflop with AK is
better than putting in another raise. In my opinion, 95%+ of the time, when
you have AK preflop, it's better to re-raise than call. | B*********s
发帖数: 4158 | 2 what if 3-bet got reraised, do you usually just 5-bet shove all in?
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【在 f*f 的大作中提到】
: In higher stakes game, most players are fairly aggressive. Aggressive poker
: is good poker right? Well.. not always true, but unless you are playing
: against true maniacs, aggressive is usually right since we just don't make
: that many strong hands in Holdem, you have to win your share of the pots
: where no one has a strong hand to stay afloat of the rake and blinds.
: So back to the topic, why you see AK being played so aggressively preflop by
: most good players? Ready?...
: Reason #1) It's a damn good hand.. simple as that, unless you are against a
: range like AA/KK/AK, you are never that far behind with AK. So getting it
: allin with AK preflop is usually a fine result unless it's super deep.
| f*f
发帖数: 121 | 3 yeah.. I do that 99% of the time, although the games I played is much more
aggressive your average game probably. Nevertheless, if I sit down at 1c/2c
on pokerstars for some reason and was trying to play as well as I could be,
and some guy 4bet me and I have AK, unless it's like utg vs utg+1 or
something, I would 5bet shove with 100bb.
【在 B*********s 的大作中提到】
: what if 3-bet got reraised, do you usually just 5-bet shove all in?
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| G********r
发帖数: 666 | 4 Great article. Consider this scenario: After calling a 4 bet from a "normal" player (either LAG/TAG but non-maniac), and the flop came 9 high rainbow then not surprisingly the aggressor shoved or bet pot-size. This seems to happen very often. What would be our strategies there? From your writing it appears that it would be better to 5 bet shove before seeing the flop and I definitely concur as it is extremely difficult to play on the flop with AK if you just call a 4 bet. | d*****0
发帖数: 1500 | 5 奇文共欣赏
any paired hands in holdem has 6 combination,
while unpaired hand has 16 combination.
不是很懂，请明示 | D*****A
发帖数: 551 | 6 需要咀嚼一下。谢谢fcf分享。
能不能延伸一下，讲讲翻牌后怎么玩？ | W********m
发帖数: 7793 | 7 Ac Ad As Ah
Kc Kd Ks Kh
choose 1 from each for AK 16 combo
AcAdAsAh choose 2 from 4. that is 6 combo.
【在 d*****0 的大作中提到】
: 奇文共欣赏
: any paired hands in holdem has 6 combination,
: while unpaired hand has 16 combination.
: 不是很懂，请明示
| H*******n
发帖数: 914 | 8 记住每张牌各四个花色，
第一种情况4选2C(4,2)=4x3/2 = 6
第二种情况4x4 = 16
【在 d*****0 的大作中提到】
: 奇文共欣赏
: any paired hands in holdem has 6 combination,
: while unpaired hand has 16 combination.
: 不是很懂，请明示
| d*****0
发帖数: 1500 | | H****r
发帖数: 2801 | 10 Very good article!
There's other issues though. If other players knows how AK is played like
this then the strategy might work less effectively...
There were at least two times that my AK got called down (pre and after flop
) by 22. It's like whenever I repop big they think I'm holding AK....
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【在 f*f 的大作中提到】
: In higher stakes game, most players are fairly aggressive. Aggressive poker
: is good poker right? Well.. not always true, but unless you are playing
: against true maniacs, aggressive is usually right since we just don't make
: that many strong hands in Holdem, you have to win your share of the pots
: where no one has a strong hand to stay afloat of the rake and blinds.
: So back to the topic, why you see AK being played so aggressively preflop by
: most good players? Ready?...
: Reason #1) It's a damn good hand.. simple as that, unless you are against a
: range like AA/KK/AK, you are never that far behind with AK. So getting it
: allin with AK preflop is usually a fine result unless it's super deep.
| | | s*********k
发帖数: 1989 | 11 nice, marked. Thanks for sharing.
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【在 f*f 的大作中提到】
: In higher stakes game, most players are fairly aggressive. Aggressive poker
: is good poker right? Well.. not always true, but unless you are playing
: against true maniacs, aggressive is usually right since we just don't make
: that many strong hands in Holdem, you have to win your share of the pots
: where no one has a strong hand to stay afloat of the rake and blinds.
: So back to the topic, why you see AK being played so aggressively preflop by
: most good players? Ready?...
: Reason #1) It's a damn good hand.. simple as that, unless you are against a
: range like AA/KK/AK, you are never that far behind with AK. So getting it
: allin with AK preflop is usually a fine result unless it's super deep.
| m******1
发帖数: 715 | 12 In my small stake "friendly" home games, AK is code-named "Anna Kournikova" | t********t
发帖数: 5415 | 13
Kournikova"
nice...
【在 m******1 的大作中提到】
: In my small stake "friendly" home games, AK is code-named "Anna Kournikova"
| f*****g
发帖数: 15860 | 14 oh, i'd fold my AA then for ... in return.
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【在 m******1 的大作中提到】
: In my small stake "friendly" home games, AK is code-named "Anna Kournikova"
| s*********r
发帖数: 4210 | 15 wonder what's AA's nickname in this sense? I used this fcf's strategy last
couple of days, pretty good. thanks.
【在 f*****g 的大作中提到】
: oh, i'd fold my AA then for ... in return.
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| s*********r
发帖数: 4210 | 16 Now, I really need a strategy for how to play AQ |
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