You need to get rid of the thought that pocket aces are invincible.  You need to play with caution so you will ensure profitability. Caution does not mean scared. It means cautious for mistakes. In poker, it’s all about minimizing mistakes, and that’s just as true for pocket aces as it is for 97 suited.

The ideal scenario when you have pocket aces is not battling it out with several players but meeting an opponent heads on upon the flop.  You don’t need to limp and play tricks. Look forward to raising the bet so you can get rid of other players and develop an ideal situation for your cards.

Limping poses danger to your pocket aces. You don’t want to limp, then raise, and re-raise again. It will send some wrong message to your opponents. When you have a strong hand, it will be good to let your opponents know. Make sure though that you don’t let all the clues out or you will waste your pocket aces.

Post Flop

After the flop, you still want to go on with the bets and the raises to beef up the pot. You will be able to rake in more money when you play the pocket aces strong.

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A beautiful clash from Poker After Dark. At this point in the game, Kido Phan had been playing extremely strong poker, and Juanda had been playing relatively tight poker…

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David Sklansky put forward a fundamental theorem when playing poker. He published this in his book The Theory of Poker.  Let us quote Sklansky:

“Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents’ cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose.

Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose.”

This is your foundation to win in a poker game.

Basically it says if you have the best hand, bet; if you have the worst hand, fold.

This way you will be guided that your objective is to take control of the table and rake in all their chips. But of course, in poker, you will never be sure 100% what the other players hold. So what you need to do is try to follow the perfect line to win even though you don’t see their cards.

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Don’t you just love Tony G. (well, loads of people don’t, but I do).

FEEL THE POWAAAA!!

YOU’RE A CHAMPION!!

SEND YOU BACK TO RUSSIA!!!

BRING MORE RUSSIANS!!!!

THIS IS NOT SOMEONE TO LEARN FROM!!!!

TEACH HIM A GOOD LESSON HERE!!!!

YEAH BABY COME ON RUSSIAN, GET OUT!!!!

LOOK HOW UGLY THIS IS. YOU’RE A PROFFESSIONAL PLAYER AND I CAN DO THIS TO YOU!!!!

BRING THE RUSSIANS ON!!!

YOU PLAYED THAT AS BAD AS YOU CAN!!!

YOUR CAREER IS FINISHED!!!

DO YOU FEEL MY POWAAAR BABY??!!!!

IS THIS HOW YOU PLAY, YOU CALL WITH KING JACK?

ON YOUR BIKE!!!!

HE DOESN’T DESERVE ANY APPLAUSE!!!

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So so sick. Paul Wasicka was by far the best player on the final table of the World Series of Poker 2006 Main Event, but apparently the poker Gods just wanted the luckiest idiot in poker ever to win a Main Event Title.

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Justin Phillips will most likely remember this hand from the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Making Quad Aces on the river, getting all the chips in, and being beat by a guy wearing close to no clothes must really really suck…

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