rivered, sucks

Yep, that's a suckout.

Get used to it. It happens atleast once every day if you're playing good poker.

Good players get sucked out on a lot. Bad players never get sucked out on. This is because in order to get sucked out on, you need to have all your money in the middle on the best hand with cards to come. Good players get the money in the middle when they have the best hand, bad players don't.

You need to rise above. You need to feel like you've gained something in the long run even though you just lost a pot.

Oh, and it might be different on $10 NL tables, but I really don't like flat calling with AK longhanded. Always either raise or fold preflop with that hand, it'll save you a lot of pots. If you get reraised, most of the time your opponent will have the better hand, and you can safely fold it. If you get called, you have more control on the flop, and can get people folding even when you don't hit.

That hand loses a lot of its value when you're not the bettor preflop.

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unlucky , I quess impossible to protect at this case.

On November 27 2005 19:33 Chris307 wrote: Oh, and it might be different on $10 NL tables, but I really don't like flat calling with AK longhanded. Always either raise or fold preflop with that hand, it'll save you a lot of pots. If you get reraised, most of the time your opponent will have the better hand, and you can safely fold it. If you get called, you have more control on the flop, and can get people folding even when you don't hit. That hand loses a lot of its value when you're not the bettor preflop.

Nono! I like it, alot. Sometimes I reraise KA preflop to stay active with good potential hands so that my actual hands (KK/AA) get paid off better. However flat calling KA preflop against one raiser is an excellent play as well. All good players use it very often. If an K/A flops you're pretty much settled. As long as the other two cards on the board are safe your hand will almost be as strong as a set, meaning you can be sure of it being the best hand. The strength of KA calling a preflop raise was shown in this hand, and I guarantee you that this is no exception.

On November 27 2005 21:06 Nazgul wrote:. Nono! I like it, alot. Sometimes I reraise KA preflop to stay active with good potential hands so that my actual hands (KK/AA) get paid off better. However flat calling KA preflop against one raiser is an excellent play as well. All good players use it very often. If an K/A flops you're pretty much settled. As long as the other two cards on the board are safe your hand will almost be as strong as a set, meaning you can be sure of it being the best hand. The strength of KA calling a preflop raise was shown in this hand, and I guarantee you that this is no exception.

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i prefer flat calling AK preflop to reraising

consider this: 2/3 the time you will miss, and hands that will call a reraise will most likely be beating you and will win most of these pots. so you are basically just building a pot you will lose 2/3 of the time. by flat calling, as naz said, your hand is as strong as a set when you hit, with added deception value, and you commit less money when you miss.

i do reraise when its shorthanded though because the range of hands a player is likely to be raising with is much larger when there are less people in the game