Beavis is right. I'm stacking people with pocket 9's on J-hi flops. It used to be that if I had an overpair on the flop and someone got a little aggressive I would have to fear sets. Now, most the time it's just a pair...or the nuts as they see it. Which is good for me when I have a big pair of course, but bad when I have AK no matter what flops.
This is something more recent. I haven't seen it much before the last few months. Maybe a new trend like everyone going nuts 3-betting out of the blinds about a year or so back, which I actually don't see as much anymore and it has seemed to become a little easier to steal blinds again.
Anyway, yes, you're going to get them with your bigger pairs, but I was specifically just talking about your big Aces and how AK loses value now if you have to take a flop with it and have chips remaining to be bet. This is why I made the statement that I feel like I'm playing AK strongly preflop (in non-all-in situations) almost just to balance my range for when I have big pairs instead of because it's a strong hand.
Almost like, sometimes you gotta give 'em what they expect so you can hit them with what they don't expect.
Just don't be bluffing post-flop without A or K on board unless you want to play for a stack now.Statistics: Posted by MTPaid — Mon May 05, 2008 10:33 pm
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