Unibet casino players will know that in poker there are few more dangerous yet potentially lucrative hands than ace king. Known by a plethora of nicknames, including Big Slick due to its propensity for making players slip up and lose their chips, ace king is a hand that needs careful attention.
The first point to establish is that in the ranking of poker hands ace king is near the very top. Indeed, if you hold ace king suited then you're in possession of the third best starting hand available – unless you rank pocket queens higher, as some people do.
However, as strong as ace king is before the flop, there is no escaping the fact that it is difficult to play post-flop if you don't make at least a pair. Indeed, this inherent strength pre-flop underpins the basic strategy you should use when deciding what to do with poker's trickiest hand.
In many situations it's never a mistake (or at least a big mistake) to get all your money in the middle with this hand. Unless you strongly suspect that your opponent has pocket ace or pocket kings, the worst shape you can be in is 50/50.
Because of this you should aim to play the hand as aggressively as possible whenever you have the opportunity. This means always raising this hand pre-flop, and always re-raising if you there is action before you.
Playing ace king this way will not only make it easier for you pressure your opponents into folding (which, with ace king is never a bad thing), but it will also decrease the pot to stack ratio. What this means is, the money in the middle is either slightly less or greater than your remaining stack. When this occurs it makes your decisions easier as your bets are either all or nothing.
Sometimes in poker there are tough spots but you can reduce the amount of tricky decisions you have to make if you take the aggressive route. This is particularly true when you find yourself looking down at Big Slick.
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