AK?

Hello,
As a player when you are dealt A K you over estimate this hand. You bet high before the flop but the flop usaully doesn't help. While your oppenent(s) hands are getting better you are stuck with Ace high. So play responsible and dont fall in love with it to much.

So what you are saying is that the only hands worth raising is AA since that is about the only hand that can't get into lots of trouble on the flop? You raise to isolate and reduce the number of callers. The hand is a coin flip at against any hand minus AA or KK, that is powerful in my book.

As far as your oppenets hands getting better and you are stuck with A high, that is exactly why you raise. You don't want that BB seeing a flop with 64 and catching two pair when little cards come on the flop. Poker is as much about aggression as it is about cards. AK allows you to be aggressive since you most often have the best hand when it does hit.

I agree that you don't want to fall in love with post flop when it doesn't hit but there are worse hands to play.

Damn dude you are a fking genius

A, K is meant to raise big with and hopefully get only one caller and the odds are usually in your favor or you can steal the blinds. It's not exactly a hand you hang on to unless you have a draw or caught a pair of Aces.

You raise pre-flop pretty hard for the times when A,K Doesn't pay off. Not extremely hard to cripple yourself cause some donk like the 6,7 does hit his 2 pair or the flush. Cause if no flushes are showing.. yeah you have 6 cards but now it is 24% to hit on the turn.. and 12% on the river.

I can see your point as that is one of my least favorite hands, but if you are crazy enough to play the hand without a raise then you deserve to lose.

Most people on this site understand the concept of not falling in love with a hand, as we all know any hand is beatable after the flop

g/l

Good advice for the ABSOLUTE BEGINNER who may put all their money in the pot POST FLOP just because they have AK (I've seen people do this with an obvious set or flush on the board....I say obvious from the betting pattern)

But once you get a handle of how Holdem works it can be the best hand to have PRE-FLOP especially against a short stacked fish holding a AQ,AJ,orA/10.