Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Is our hand more for drawing or flopping top pair?
Is our hand more for drawing or flopping top pair? In this case it's a bit of both. Most of the value in our hand will be from making a straight or flush, but with the king, it has reasonable top pair showdown value as well. Again, somewhat neutral overall for both situations.
All things considered it's close between flatting or squeezing
All things considered it's close between flatting or squeezing Folding doesn't come up as an option too much when we go through the hand, and between flatting or squeezing, squeezing has slightly more value since if we flat we'll have to play well against two decent players out of position. If we squeeze, the worst case scenario is that our opponent on the button calls, and we play slightly deeper in a re-raised post against them. However, stacks aren't deep enough for them to warrant calling with a lot of their drawing hands unless they really love taking flops in position, which is a possibility. However, we still have a strong hand that has big hand and top pair potential.