So should you really play these hands like this? Well clearly the game of hold’em is all about bluffing, and you can bluff with confidence pre flop if you have a Queen or King, as you know you could easily hit something. But if you only have one King or Queen then the possibility that someone else has the other one is high, so bluffing like this is dangerous, and takes confidence.
Now the ultimate hand in poker pre-flop is usually seen as pocket aces, a pair of ace cards. But a lot of players fail to realise that all they have is a pair, fair enough its the best pair, but it is still easily beaten by something as small as a 5 6, if 4 7 8 9 comes, then you are in deep trouble, and you know that if you have pocket aces you will be putting a sizable amount of chips into the middle of the table. You usually try to mask your hand by not betting a stupid amount, either that or you are all in, there is no worse feeling to loose with Ace Ace when your all in, especially to a couple of low cards that, in your opinion you would have to be mad to play.
I wouldn’t say that you shouldn’t play a pair of aces but I would say be careful when playing it, remember that although pre flop you are favourite to win, unless you manage to get people off the hand pre-flop and take the blinds, you are in as risky territory than if you just went in with a pair of two’s.
