Tips for Playing Ace, King Hand Poker Strategy in Texas Holdem

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"Now, the big blind has a decision. He looks down and he sees ace king. He's like I don't know what's going on. I know the dealer is loose, he's probably going all in, he's probably making this call no matter what. I figure I'm gonna be in this three hands. Well, ace king actually plays well three handed. So, he says you know what, I don't want to bust out now, but I'd rather have a chance at having a big stack then basically dwindling and not making the cash. So he calls. Just like we thought, the dealer calls. Everybodies all in. We flip over the cards. We've got ace ten for the dealer. We've got jacks for the small blind, ace king for the big blind. The big blinds feeling ok about this. All he has to do is hit an ace or a king and not have his opponent's hands improve and he's golden. He's gonna take down the whole three handed pot. So we burn one, we turn the flop and there's an ace. The door card is an ace. He's got a pair of aces. He's ahead. Statistically he's gonna take down this pot seventy five percent of the time. Burn one. Turn one. No improvement. Burn one. There's the river. No improvement for these two guys. They're out of the tournament and ace king takes down the pot. Our big blind just tripled his stack. "