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
Ax (Will play an ace from anywhere)
Ax (Will play an ace from anywhere) There are many opponents at small and micro stakes that will play an ace (and any other card) from any position. They’ll limp A4o from early position, or call a raise with A6o out of position. They’ll also tend to be .sticky. to these top pair hands if an ace flops. These players you want to note for a couple of reasons.
It will give you some insight
It will give you some insight best hand. If you’re in a pot with them and have a high pocket pair, but an ace flops and they give you action, you can be nearly 100% sure you’re beat. When you flop an ace with a good kicker, you’ll know that they’ll pay you off with a weaker kicker, so get a lot of value bets in.