Today’s Texas Hold'em Strategy involves what to do when an Ace and a King find their way into your hand before the flop. Big slick is an incredibly seductive pair of cards to be dealt. It looks really, really good, but can easily go horribly wrong; anyone who has ever dated actress Denise Richards is probably familiar with this phenomenon. A lot of people see this pair of overcards in their hand, and decide that their best poker strategy is to go full steam ahead; this attitude is especially prevalent with people who play Texas Hold'em online. Remember though, the Big Slick represents amazing potential, and no actual hand.
When crafting a Texas Hold'em Strategy around these cards, it is best to simply call before the flop. While some people apply the poker strategy of raising pre-flop, in order to drive out the smaller drawing hands, they seem to forget that they, themselves are holding nothing but a high value drawing hand. The more people in the hand, the better your pot odds are in this case. Applying the same rules that one uses with a pair of Aces or Kings is simply an incorrect poker strategy.
Calling before flop (this includes calling raises) allows you to see the next card, while laying a little trap for your opponent as well. If the flop doesn’t help you, you have lost very little. If you flop an Ace or a King, you are in really good shape. In tournament situations I have often called with this hand, and when I have flopped the Ace, gone all-in. I will generally get one or two callers. Some are those who believe that I am using the Ace on the board to bluff while other callers are those who have an Ace as well, and a high kicker like a Queen or a Jack. In most cases I have doubled or tripled my stack of chips by employing this strategy.
That is the Texas Hold'em Strategy for today.
