Be Quick with Big Slick
Texas Hold ‘Em online poker players love to get the Ace King combination known as Big Slick. Having the two top poker cards in the deck gives a good chance for flopping the top pair. Unless you are up against a player with pocket Aces or Kings, you’ve got about a 50 percent chance of winning. Or losing!
Big Slick is often overplayed. Happy recipients of this poker hand assume they’ve got a monster. But the flop can undo Big Slick in flash. Or even worse, give a little bit of connection, say a King comes out, with two other suited cards. Now a pair of Kings could go up against a flush.
Being too fast to raise with Big Slick is a mistake. It is a drawing hand, and might not connect at all with the board. Players who go all in with it early in a tournament are tempting other players and testing their luck.
If you want to apply pressure with Big Slick, raise the blind pre-flop but don’t go all-in, just narrow the field. The only ones who stick around will probably be holding a pair or an Ace. Don’t make your bet so big that you’re pot committed because before the flop, and possibly afterwards, you are still on a drawing hand. If the flop misses you, check or fold to any bet. Be quick to let go of Big Slick when nothing materializes.
