The Dreaded Ace

By Zebrute | Published: May 10, 2009

One of the easiest mistake to do as a poker player is to overplay a great pre-flop hands (like AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ) on a bad flop. It is important to remember that, even though they often win you big pots, the aces can also make you lose a lot of money. This is why a good poker player should be able to fold his top five hands if the flop is against him no matter how hard it his to see those aces go to waste.

This is a hand I played on a tournament the other day. In the early stages, I caught pocket kings which is the second best preflop hand of Texas Hold’em. After player 3 raised three times the big blind, i choose to just call him in order to slow play him. Sadly for me, a dreaded ace was on the flop. Knowing that I invested a fairly small amount in the pot (150$ out of 525$ or roughly 30% of the pot) and that with two other player in the hand my cowboys were probably beaten, so I chose to fold my pocket kings and live to fight another day.

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