HOW TO PLAY KK IN EARLY POSITION

#1 27-06-2007, 6:52 PM

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO PLAY KK IN EARLY POSITION?

#2 27-06-2007, 7:27 PM

That is a very general question, but I will try to answer it. I will always raise this 4-5x the BB in early position. If the table is very aggressive and you are fairly sure someone will raise the pot later on you could limp this then reraise the original raiser, but I would only do this if I was 90% sure someone was going to throw in a raise after me.

#3 28-06-2007, 1:25 AM

I like to take the pot down pre-flop! Pocket pairs scare me :P

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PokerStars Game #10653391459: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2007/06/27 - 20:12:22 (ET)
Table 'Tvashtri II' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: tonymaclenna ($4.60 in chips)
Seat 2: blindeye87 ($1.04 in chips)
Seat 3: meangene11 ($3.09 in chips)
Seat 4: WChang ($2.54 in chips)
Seat 6: witstile ($3.18 in chips)
Seat 8: Jones5780 ($0.73 in chips)
Seat 9: hairy45 ($3.08 in chips)
hairy45: posts small blind $0.01
tonymaclenna: posts big blind $0.02
WChang: posts small blind $0.01
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tonymaclenna [Kc Kh]
blindeye87: raises $1.02 to $1.04 and is all-in
tonymaclenna said, ":-D"
meangene11: folds
WChang: folds
witstile: folds
tonymaclenna said, "Ill play blindeye"
Jones5780: folds
hairy45: folds
tonymaclenna: calls $1.02
*** FLOP *** [Jd 3h 2s]
*** TURN *** [Jd 3h 2s] A♥
*** RIVER *** [Jd 3h 2s Ah] 7♦
*** SHOW DOWN ***
tonymaclenna: shows [Kc Kh] (a pair of Kings)
blindeye87: mucks hand
tonymaclenna collected $2 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $2.10 | Rake $0.10
Board [Jd 3h 2s Ah 7d]
Seat 1: tonymaclenna (big blind) showed [Kc Kh] and won ($2) with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: blindeye87 mucked [8h 8s]
Seat 3: meangene11 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: WChang folded before Flop
Seat 6: witstile folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Jones5780 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: hairy45 (small blind) folded before Flop

#4 28-06-2007, 3:14 AM

Sine preflop there is only one hand better, I think you should raise big- 5 to 6x BB; you're much better off isolating one caller-2 at most- than trying to get them to hold up against a family pot. If you have a good read on a LAG player at your table, you might scale back a little and rerais, as bw suggests, but I don't like to count on that play. Get as much of you money in preflop as you can, while you are fairly sure you're in the lead.

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