Jonathan Little on Getting Your Chips in With Premium Hands
Whenever you are fortunate enough to be dealt AxAx or KxKx, you want to do everything in your power to get all in — in a way that makes your opponents think you don’t have a premium hand.
But sometimes it won’t work out!
Take a look at this hand I played in a $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em event from last summer’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
The hand came early in the tournament during the very first level. As you’ll see, a short-stacked player opens with an especially large raise preflop (5x the big blind), another calls, then another reraises over that before it gets to me in the big blind with K♣K♠.
How would you play such a situation, knowing that you absolutely want to get your chips in with pocket kings? Take a look and see how I played the hand:
How would you have played this hand? Let me know in a comment below.
Jonathan Little is a professional poker player and author with over $6,200,000 in live tournament earnings. He writes a weekly educational blog and hosts a podcast at JonathanLittlePoker.com. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanLittle.
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