Poker: Playing Big Slick in Four Bet Pots
When it comes to pre flop starting hands, most players will rate ace-king right up there with the big three of aces, kings, and queens.
But despite deserving its place in the Sklansky and Malmuth number one hand-ranking group, it is still a hand that often has to hit in order to be victorious.
There are those that just love to see Big Slick - whilst playing 100B - just so they can get it in. Then there are those who get scared and think it is only ace high.
When playing 100BB cash game poker, your opponents will rarely get it in with anything other than AA-QQ.
This changes if you are playing against a super-aggressive opponent, but invariably the weaker aces are just not finding their way into the middle of the pot, especially on the back of a 100BB stack.
Working on this theory some more, if you do fold out the weaker aces by four-betting with this hand, then you are losing value. Just imagine what will happen if an ace appears on the flop, and your opponent is holding ace-jack or ace-queen for example.
So, one tactic that you could use is to just call a three-bet, call the flop, and then bet the turn. This allows you to keep weaker aces in play and you may even have showdown value with your ace-high when you get to the river.
In tournament poker it is all dependant on stack sizes. Ace-king becomes a huge hand when players start to fall anywhere between 10-20BB.
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