Yes, it's the strongest suited connector & you should only semi-bluff with it pre-flop in tournaments, not cash games.
@OneEyedJack01
Ай бұрын
This video could really use some out of position play.
@LIONTAMER3D
Ай бұрын
@OneEyedJack01 no, because YOU can't really use some "out of position play", either; so it all works out for the best
@Pfffnah
Ай бұрын
The only made hands are the pairs . Any other hand is a draw hand
@CJ.1998X.Y.Z
Ай бұрын
@@LIONTAMER3DKQ is technically the strongest suited connector as it can make more straights
@ryanjones4150
Ай бұрын
I grind the low limits full time. I play against the same people all the time, and they know that when I 3 bet them preflop that I could have AK and they also know that I will c-bet it sometimes. This knowledge gets me paid the times when I actually have a premium pair. I don't 3- bet nits who hardly ever raise, and I fold it preflop when it goes bet 3-bet in front of me by those kind of players. I'll limp-jam it against people who squeeze too often out of the blinds and will stack-off with a worse ace. Some people raise with AK and give up if they wiff the flop, I call those players light to take the pot away from them when they miss. Bottom line is, knowing how your opponents play is crucial to winning at poker, and putting doubt in their minds as to how you play is as well.
@kenrobinson1188
Ай бұрын
Bottom line is that GTO is gospel and a game changer
@PaulFurber
Ай бұрын
Nuts at 10:20 is 35s giving a straight flush.
@34Zero
Ай бұрын
In vegas AK is called "Walking back to houston" .. back in the day so many players busted out with AK and had to walk back to houston
@helmamut3970
2 күн бұрын
How do you play oop when you 3bet vilan and he calls abd the flop is full of low cards ?
@PokerCoaching
Күн бұрын
It depends...
@barbarossapur7459
Ай бұрын
Hi. Could you explain how to play your last example (where villain showed A4) if we do not hit the flush? What would have happened in this case? Do I have to fold to a large bet, for example?
@arch1ng
Ай бұрын
This is exactly what i need recently! Thank you so much 😆
@Charlie_Echo
19 күн бұрын
This is interesting. GTOWizard favours shoving AKo preflop in the situation you describe (LJ vs SB 3bet 100bb cash). And in general it seems to shove AKo a lot to a 3bet preflop, and AKs sometimes too. Any idea why that would be different from the solver you're using?
@Matt42020
Ай бұрын
I was getting killed with AK for a long time but I made some changes to the way i approached the hand and started seeing better results. A lot of the changes I made to the way I play it are the points you made in this video. However, I think your advice on over betting BIG hands on the river could be detrimental at low stakes (50 NL / 100NL / 200 NL). I find any time I have a monster hand if I over bet the river I never ever get paid. This could be due to my reputation amongst the player pool but people usually do not tend to do big bet bluffing on the river at lower / mid stakes. You almost never ever see it compared to the plays at high stakes games where there actually is more of a meta-game going on. Its kind of like this, if someone had a hand strong enough to call an over bet on the river theyre probably going to be leading with it.
@norbertkando7574
Ай бұрын
Last hand, on the turn you overbet while being behind, how many times will you hit that flush draw? 18%? Is pot control not a thing?
@DominationRotation
Ай бұрын
You pot control with your weaker Ax portion of your range. That's good not only for controlling the size of the pot with marginal top pairs, but this also protects your checking range. Villain therefore can't arbitrarily bluff rivers, after turn check backs. The reason you don't do that with AK/AQ combos is that you miss value vs all of villains weaker Ax combos. And those are quite plenty. You want to go for 3 streets of value with your AK/AQ on clean inacuous runouts. Obviously it's essential to realise what board texture is appropriate- you won't want to trip it off on KJ10 two tone. There pot control is the best way to go. Don't miss on your value brother. Lowstakes bread and butter.
@markcummings3146
28 күн бұрын
Getting it in pre on Sit'n'goes isn't terrible when you know players will call off with strong aces in my opinion Jonathan. Totally agree on Cash and MTTs though.
@awright18
Ай бұрын
This video just popped up a day after I played a bloody pot, I had AK an opponent had AK, and other opponent had KK. Preflop was 3 bet, flop 8JJ pot was opened by me 1/4 pot, called, raised pot, I reraised min, it was reraised again min and I and the other AK player got destroyed when no Ace came out. Learned my lesson and this video at least makes me understand why I messed up.
@UncleJoeLITE
Ай бұрын
4:50 Check back or bet 33% pot. Gotta adapt to the player, lots of opponents I play at smaller stakes will fold out draws & middle pairs too easily. 13:00 I tend towards pot sized, maybe I need to go harder. But yeah...it all makes sense, it's just hard to implement optimally. Thanks JL.
@jdstoltz3407
Ай бұрын
AKss on 653 one spade, I check back for pot control and equity realization with backdoors and overcards
@rex6653
29 күн бұрын
What could be my bluffs when overbet allin on the last hand?🤔
@xxpierrot
25 күн бұрын
I'm scared of my AK becoming face up if i slow down on missed flops. Especially in big 3bet pots.
@Foolish188
Ай бұрын
Once got it in 7 times (over hundreds of cash game hands) preflop with AA or KK against one guy who always had AK. Lost my stack all 7 times. Online Poker is Rigged! Lol Made a note to look for him when he was playing. Then got it in against him 20 times with AA and KK, won all 20 pots. You think he would have noticed. It was on Full Tilt, where they used to have a freeroll for anybody redepositing that month. He was always entered into that freeroll. I used to add notes about every player who redeposited, very profitable series of notes. Some deposited every month for a couple of years!
@littleinkling4604
Ай бұрын
If you're playing freeroles then surely that's the fun players who don't mind redepositing. That's the money that feeds up!
@lucianozaffaina9853
Ай бұрын
Hi Jonathan, can you make a video about what happened at the WSOP final table? I am referring to cheating allegations
@Dybel200
Ай бұрын
4:50 with 3 cards all below 10 vs a big blind I would probably check vs most oponents. If I got check-raised it would be bad situation, probably I would fell forced to call.
@Natureofwolf
Ай бұрын
That’s was my sadness I learnt to give up AQ &QQ, JJ but AKs AKo 😢happened to over played or too slow played. Thanks 🎉🎉
@nwilliams38
Ай бұрын
Why was the last example the second nuts?
@YTSparty
Ай бұрын
Good information on how to play AK. What do you think about multi-hands with AK? When I first started watching poker, AK was always referred to an over-valued hand. Hence the "Anna Kornikova" hand, looks good, plays badly. So I always think of AK as a weaker hand than say a pair. But I like your approach, don't treat AK like AA, play it like AK.
@mike62380
Ай бұрын
How would you handle someone going all in preflop after your initial raise if you had AK?
@JP-rw5cd
Ай бұрын
My thoughts too!
@m25lll
Ай бұрын
its a coin flip vs pocket pairs & dominated against aa, & kk. Need to evaluate position/player/stack for a read on what they have and then determine if you want to flip for stacks at that point in time.
@mike62380
Ай бұрын
I figured it was all situation dependent. I've only been recently looking into gto so I wasn't sure if there was a hard and fast answer. I generally would just play it based on the situation.
@nothere9551
Ай бұрын
Thanks Jonathon for some timely, albeit obvious (once I was told), wisdom. Will try it tomorrow.
@PokerCoaching
Ай бұрын
You're welcome! Best of luck
@littleinkling4604
Ай бұрын
Do people actually lose with AK? My BB/100 has off-suit (396.) below only QQ,KK and AA. Suited is lower for some reason, beaten by 88, TT, AJ, AQ at (229.) Maybe I'm shoving more with the suited.
@ctriis
Ай бұрын
When you have AK you either hit top pair or or are drawing to top pair on every flop. That's kinda nice.
@ogtradertv
Ай бұрын
wish he went over how to bluff with AK when you have backdoor outs, or when OOP
@Hozagen
Ай бұрын
The first nut in the AK spades flush draw scenario is 35s
@nikcleese6058
Ай бұрын
15 person tournament, 8 people left. Blinds high. Average stack has 15 BB. Everyone folds, I'm SB AKs... Raise 2.5 x BB preflop. The BB goes all in which is around 18xBB. Still leaves me 8xBB's. Bear in mind he's all in range is super wide as he's a gambler. There is also a bounty to win from him. I but him something KQ or KJ off. Recent hand he went all in with K2s and pushed me of an A10o .... Call... Up against 22... What the ... Nothing hits and he wins. Next hand I have AJo, and again he does all in and beats me with 44. Doh...
@kenrobinson1188
Ай бұрын
In my local card rooms we call AK the Danica Kirkpatrick….looks good but never wins 😹
@davidpalermo6613
Ай бұрын
Hmm. Wouldnt top nuts be A2345 Suited, Then AAAA, and then your third nuts?
@skelthouser2730
Ай бұрын
Wrong
@kenrobinson1188
Ай бұрын
Ive been playing cash games only for a significant amount of time; daily. And now I am much less successful in tournaments. Why does it seem you cannot be good at both at the same time?
@Franciscasieri
Ай бұрын
Why does a runner not excel at sprinting and running a marathon?
@matthewriebel5792
Ай бұрын
Check in 653 two-toned flop.
@Foolish188
Ай бұрын
#3 I need to bet bet bet my made hands, to cover for the times I am bluffing. If they can't tell the difference, you print money.
@user-mr8fy4sk9n
Ай бұрын
Quick question @jonathan - In the last example, what if the opponent check raise shoves on the turn cuz he hit 2p, is it profitable to still call?
@RapIndulgent
Ай бұрын
You have outs (another A, another K, or any diamond) means 14 outs. So as long as you get at least ~28% implied odds, it’s a call. If they shove turn, it’s 44 more bbs to win 76 bbs, so you’re getting about 37% to call. That leads me to believe it’s a fold?
@OneEyedJack01
Ай бұрын
That is a pot odds question that will vary depending on stack depth. If you can't calculate that it's a skill you need to learn.
@zeebags9885
Ай бұрын
@@RapIndulgent A is not an out for you. It’s a terrible result too!
@RapIndulgent
Ай бұрын
Why isn’t it an out?
@zeebags9885
Ай бұрын
Villain already had two pair on the turn. Another A gives them a boat. Our trips, top kicker, will be extremely difficult to get away from.
@charlesd7515
Ай бұрын
Thanks JL. I feel like this is all straightforward, but in a game…… Good stuff!
@PokerCoaching
Ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful, Charles!
@FrasierFanMSU
Ай бұрын
How not to lose with AK, *and* 35s makes the nuts? Is this video a special request by Jaman Burton?
@qsdailydose8970
Ай бұрын
Great video Thankyou Jonathan I definitely bet hands that i should check and get raised and fail to realize my equity.
@PokerCoaching
Ай бұрын
You're welcome!
@littleinkling4604
Ай бұрын
That turn with the J of spades. Is that not a shove? Range betting is why you said to check back the flop. So how much of that, the BB hitting nothing or hitting one pair on the flop do we take into account for our villain? When the J hits the turn and you jam with your 30% draw, you force out his 1 pairs and flush draws.
@cameronmorris3092
Ай бұрын
Cheers for the great tips Johnno. I will implement them on my Wed & Friday along with state champs this weekend.
@PokerCoaching
Ай бұрын
You're welcome, good luck Cameron!
@cameronmorris3092
Ай бұрын
@@PokerCoachinghey John…just a quick update. I ran deep and finished 20th out of a field of 419 in the APL VIC state champs.
@Ricky092570
Ай бұрын
Question- At what stack depth is AK a 4bet shove or reraise? 25BB? 50BB? 75BB?
@sashoplamenov7501
Ай бұрын
Good question sir...i would say 50bb in most cases its easy shove.. with 75 BB , it depends...if the action is from EP, probably is just call
@fmsdabbed8090
Ай бұрын
25 bb for sure is a shove, 50 bb also probably a 3 bet shove esp off suit. 75 bb I think it’s a mix
@nibblerdoo
Ай бұрын
Love that you were at the same table as Yang in the main event when he bluffed the 82o :)
@randomtroll7374
Ай бұрын
He's not gonna fuck you bro.
@andrewadami3920
Ай бұрын
Are you suggesting that you have access to your opponent's hole cards during active play? Because in many circles that is considered cheating. You can get disqualified from the tournament and barred from future poker events. You shouldn't know your opponent's hole cards.
@carlillingworth88
Ай бұрын
35s is the nuts
@freesap8621
Ай бұрын
3:45 why is JTs calling but QJs folding on the right?
@fmsdabbed8090
Ай бұрын
QJ can be dominated. J10 is easy to navigate post flop. If a 10 hits, you’re in pretty good shape only losing to overpairs, whereas if a Q hits on QJ, you’re still losing to overpairs and can be dominated by QQ AQ KQ. Also J10 can make the nuts in 3 different ways
@fmsdabbed8090
Ай бұрын
4 different ways*
@danield1718
Ай бұрын
@@fmsdabbed8090in both scenarios you are losing to overpairs, with queens you are losing to a lesser amount of overpairs.
@alanarmstrong6460
Ай бұрын
I see AK beat small pocket pair most of the times
@johnnytwotimes7854
Ай бұрын
Mostly check, bet small sometimes
@stevenwilson8718
Ай бұрын
Just play A2s and flop a straight flush instead!
@chasewakefield4366
27 күн бұрын
Great video!!
@Reiki_Bee
Ай бұрын
We witnessed AK bust out so many people during the recent WSOP... 😜👍
@simmions1
Ай бұрын
Is there any scenario to go all in deep stacked in a cash game ?
@Matt42020
Ай бұрын
Yeah when you decide you no longer want the money thats in front of you.
@DominationRotation
Ай бұрын
Define deep stacked- 100bb? 200b? 500bb? Don't listen to Matt. It all depends on the environment your playing in. There are games where people 3-bet/4-bet quite liberally with wide ranges. These are the spots you want to take to pile money in the pot pre with your AK+. If your playing tough opposition with structured ranges best stick to charts and their frequencies.
@nickchoporis5901
Ай бұрын
Check...
@Johnouai
Ай бұрын
you missed a very important point : do you call pre flop with AK if someone shove ? let's say you raise under the gun and under the gun +1 shove....what do you do ?
@mrhumble2937
Ай бұрын
Call
@supremeleaderarmy9164
Ай бұрын
In what game? Cash or tournament and how many BB😮
@Johnouai
Ай бұрын
@@supremeleaderarmy9164 tournaments ...100BB deep
@iamamish
Ай бұрын
If my opponent will fold a river to anything less than 2 pair then you can print by ripping it in regardless of holdings.
@chezchezchezchez
Ай бұрын
I want a new video very soon.. “DEFINITELY the most unprofitable hand you can possibly be dealt”
@ckaz007
Ай бұрын
As an avid poker tournament play, I have seen more people bust out holding AK. For me, I dislike AK except for when you call a short stack under 15 big blinds.
@TomRauhe
Ай бұрын
The only connected cards that can't make an open ended straight draw. It's an unpaired non nutted shit hand 😂
@Randy1337
Ай бұрын
If I have AK, I'm allin!!!
@larrymarvin2453
Ай бұрын
Did you mean 3rd "nuts" behind 3 5 spades and 5 7 spades?
@tomislavdimitrov7505
Ай бұрын
2, 5 and 7 of spades is only a 7 high flush (not a straight flush) and it certainly doesn't beat the best - ace high flush. So he correctly said it's the second "nuts".
@jkapown
Ай бұрын
To help eliminate controversy like at WSOP main FT, why not have RTA optional events or even RTA ONLY events w/strict simple time clock procedures, Street Poker vs. Wizards type thing or ALL wizards?
@akenower
Ай бұрын
This is a terrible idea. With rake, if everyone played perfectly GTO strategy no one would make money unless ICM solutions weren't allowed. Why turn poker into one of the lowest EV casino games instead of the only one that is even potentially profitable?
@mrhumble2937
Ай бұрын
C bet
@Jesters_Thorny_Crown
Ай бұрын
@TheDrawingDead has entered the chat.
@kevinpaskevicius1643
Ай бұрын
Check on flop
@wigi49
Ай бұрын
3S 5S
@candysacids7824
Ай бұрын
Everytime pot grows and i have AK ( top pair or two pairs ) anyone have three of kinds or make flush....its impossible to profit good with AK at ggpoker.... software doesnt let this kind of favorite hand win.
@philcummings9525
Ай бұрын
53spades was nuts .... i dont agree with you on the preflop all in except for the caveat Deep Stacked .... If you think your opponents range is Strong and you are deep stacked ok ...but most of the time its more in the middle and you are just gambling ..... So only what two hands beat it at that point ...aces and kings ..yes all the pairs beat it but you will beat all the other pairs a large portion of the time... How many players are actually playing textbook GTO based poker at 1/2 ? who is calling all in bets against you with any of those weaker pairs ? qq and jj maybe ? i dont mind the gamble at 1/2 for your first bullet item , the other items 100 percent on board .... i respect you and dont think for one second i'm more knowlegeable but like my chances most of the time pre flop staring at ak ...
@mrhumble2937
Ай бұрын
They don't have to play gto, as long as you play it correct you'll be profitable.
@untouchable360x
Ай бұрын
Anna Kournikova. Looks good but hardly wins.
@CapoLady
Ай бұрын
Old timers called it Walking back to Houston
@chezchezchezchez
Ай бұрын
So what is the most unprofitable hand you can be dealt? You mentioned something about that, but then you completely skip telling us what the hell the hand is. Now, why in the world would you do that Jonathan? You’re not a teaser.
@TheGreatForgetter
Ай бұрын
Hold up? You guy are being dealt AK?!?!
@Just_Pele
Ай бұрын
Nuts = 53s
@disaul1627
Ай бұрын
Calling? Dude 5 bet my AKdd all in with AQo for 70bbs in a 10k why would I start calling 🤪
@carloscastroaraujo9849
Ай бұрын
Nice video, I can understand now why I'm loosing everytime with this mf hand xd
@PokerCoaching
Ай бұрын
Haha I'm glad you found it helpful!
@samuledarconi2927
Ай бұрын
I have been getting nailed by opponent that hits 2 pair with his garbage ace, my AK then eats it...bleah...
@kenrobinson1188
Ай бұрын
Man that is mire common than it should be pol
@dsrrellgriffith1161
Ай бұрын
It all depends the player u are calling a all in,,,,,i would fold against a very tight player, call very loose player who u have been watching at the table. So many people do not pay attention to every hand played, they can get so much information. I see so many players looking at their phones while playing, and many are playing online also. Phones should be banned at the table, they slow the game down so much. I played in many events this year at the WSOP, i dont know how many times we had to stop and tell the player his turn. Its out of control, or asking how much the raise or the blinds. The dealers need to enforce the phone rules
@LIONTAMER3D
Ай бұрын
People suck at understanding the difference between cash games & tournament poker. AK is a pre-flop monster in tournament poker. In cash games? It's a piece of cheese & you're an idiot for playing it all-in pre-flop lol.
@davidanderson4931
Ай бұрын
Everyone is an expert on utube. Lol. Boring
@YourPokerCoach
Ай бұрын
Great video!
@PokerCoaching
Ай бұрын
Thanks!
@nikcleese6058
Ай бұрын
15 person tournament, 8 people left. Blinds high. Average stack has 15 BB. Everyone folds, I'm SB AKs... Raise 2.5 x BB preflop. The BB goes all in which is around 18xBB. Still leaves me 8xBB's. Bear in mind he's all in range is super wide as he's a gambler. There is also a bounty to win from him. I but him something KQ or KJ off. Recent hand he went all in with K2s and pushed me of an A10o .... Call... Up against 22... What the ... Nothing hits and he wins. Next hand I have AJo, and again he does all in and beats me with 44. Doh...
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