AK (Article IV) - Unsuited

I am going to need to talk this one over with danadolf

ok good you changed it

It depends on the size of the raise, how aggresive the table has been, how tight or loose the player that made the raise is, your position, the size of your stack, limit or no-limit, etc. Well I guess that doesn't answer your question does it? Big slick is a premium hand whether its suited or not, so I would definately think about calling a raise or even better re-raising a small raise. You are a slight preflop underdog even to small pocket pairs so you have to be careful with your post flop play if you don't hit your hand. But its still not a hand that I am going to throw away too often preflop unless I am convinced that someone has pocket aces or pocket kings.
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Like said, it depends on the size of the raise and the stage of the tournament. If it is the final 4 or so, I may just go all in with it. Force them to call you. Show power. Push them around .

Early on, I would just call it and then take an appropriate action after the flop.

I dunno how this topic ended up here. Anyway I'll move it to the strategy section - how to play hand X.

Well if your the chip leader at the table, play it hard. If not lay low and see how it develops:)

its one of the best hands in the game and also one that I keep getting slaughterd with over and over. How too play BS Suited in the first 3 or 4 levels of a tourney how too play this hand pre flop out of position has been nightmare on elm street for me....if someone raises 3 or 4 times big blind u have too assume big pair don't you? and still how can you fold a hand that has more outs than a married womens' bedroom when the husband comes home early....
m60
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Former USMC, got out in 1973 married 30 years to the same woman. Two children one in college and one just made me grandfather. am new too poker so i need all the help i can get

i hate AK

Play it agressively, the idiot who raised you probably has A with a lower card.

raise everything.

sometimes you would other times you wouldnt
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osagejake

I always slow play it. I love A K  and I slow play it. Dont raise a lot, there might be a pair in the table and you wont get your A or K in the board.

Slow play them and pray for an Ace or a King.

raise 10times the blinds or all in

Anna Kornicova...looks good but never wins lol