What Are the Odds – Large Slick Suited
September 17th, 2010 at 19:21
Every list of hold’em starting hands has Huge Slick suited (Aks in poker shorthand) near the top. It truly is a incredibly powerful beginning hand, and one that shows a profit over time if wagered well. Except, it is not a made hand by itself, and cannot be treated like one.
Let’s look at a number of of the chances involving Aks before the flop.
Against any pair, even a lowly pair of twos, Massive Slick at best a coin flip. Sometimes it really is a slight underdog because when you don’t produce a hand using the board cards, Ace high will lose to a pair.
Against hands like Aq or King-Queen where you could have the higher of the cards in the opposing hand "covered", Ace-Kings is roughly a seven to 3 favorite. That is about as excellent as it gets pre-flop with this hand. It is as good as taking Aks up against 72 offsuit.
Against a far better hand, say Jack-Ten suited, your chances are roughly 6 to 4 in your favor. Greater than a coin flip, except perhaps not as very much of a favored as you would think.
When the flop lands, the value of your hand will probably be created clear. Should you land the top rated pair on the board, you’ve a major advantage with a top rated pair/top kicker situation. You can typically win bets put in by gamblers with the same pair, except a lesser kicker.
You may also beat very good commencing hands like Qq, and Jack-Jack if they tend not to flop their three-of-a-kind. Not to mention that in case you flop a flush or even a flush draw, you is going to be drawing to the nut, or very best achievable flush. These are all things that make AKs such a nice beginning hand to have.
Except what if the flop comes, and misses you. You’ll still have two overcards (cards greater than any of all those for the board). What are your likelihood now for catching an Ace or a King within the turn or the river and salvaging your hand? Of course this only works if a pair is able to salvage the hand and will likely be great enough to win the pot.
If the Ace or King you would like to see show around the board doesn’t also fill in someone else’s straight or flush draw, you’d have 6 cards (three remaining Kings and three outstanding Aces) that may give you the best pair.
With those 6 outs, the likelihood of landing your card on the turn are roughly one in 8, so if you’re planning on placing money into the pot to chase it, appear for at least seven dollars in there for each 1 dollar you’re willing to wager to keep the pot chances even. People odds will not change much about the river.
Whilst wagering poker by the chances doesn’t guarantee that you will win every single hand, or even just about every session, not knowing the chances is really a dangerous situation for anyone at the poker table that’s thinking of risking their money in a pot.