Free Online Poker Guide To How Exactly To Play A Big Hand Preflop

Where do you turn with a big hand preflop when you yourself have a big stack, like K-K? And how may the other players react? Regardless of if you simply play free poker online for pennies or are at the ultimate table in WSOP this really is a core situation that you need to know how to exploit to the full.

For our example we will look at an example from some sort of Series of Poker game:

BLINDS 40, 000/80, 000



A has As-10c moves all-in (Pot 1 . 296m)


B has K-K reraises to 5m (Pot 6. 296m)


B has two options here. They can just call and then watch for someone to move all-in after him, but that would make him do some thinking...

Could it be A-A? Or Q-Q? If it absolutely was Q-Q there exists a slight chance he might fold K-K, and regret it. But a big reraise can drive Q-Q or lower out, like what happened to another player:

C has Jd-Jc

(C's comments on B's hand were: "Why did you make it so much?... You want your hand that much? ")

If C calls, it's for all of his chips.

C may believe B has A-K, but there are two all-ins facing him, and one of them may be A-X (and with A-X he is still not safe) or a pair, but a suspiciously heavy raise to about 60 times the big blind is almost always a signal for A-A or K-K. So C could wait for a much better opportunity than now.

C folds (Pot 2. 39m)

C's fold was brilliant, after the reraise, but it will still be brilliant even if B did not reraise. B might bet again on the Flop and C may not continue and just forget about the chips.

B's reraise will work if he has A-A or K-K, but I doubt it if he will do the same with A-K or Q-Q, but it might have the same aftereffect of making C fold. As for A, let us wish for his good health. B won the hand later.

In summary

It takes time to learn how to play poker 99 online even free online poker or offline at a level above the unthinking, uneducated "chip flinging" seen at many tables. Understanding how to play different hand scenarios is just among the facets of the game you need to master and ones such as big hands preflop are crucial. Hopefully this has helped you, and remember, when you learn this you will automatically become a cut above average as most players don't bother!