Two big cards like AK are worth less than you might think. If you can never get away from one when you have top pair, top kicker, NL will kill you! You don't want to go broke with one big pair. Same it true for AA and KK, although AK is mcuh worse. Small pocket pairs are worth a lot, if you can flop a set, you are in great shape to win you opponets whole stack. But if you don't flop a set, your hand has very little value.
Keep in mind that the #1 goal in NL is to win your opponets whole stack. You are going to have to make an awfully good hand to beat your opponet, because he is also going to need a very big hand to put all his chips in. There is nothing wrong with laying down a winner in NL. In limit, if you constantly lay down the winner, you will go broke. In NL the blinds are so small compared to the implied odds of winning your opponets whole stack, you can wait a long long time for a good situation and not worry about the blinds eating you up.
Good luck, MikeStatistics: Posted by Braniff — Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:11 pm
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