Pocket Rockets Poker
What are ' Pocket Rockets '? The term 'pocket rockets' refers to being dealt pocket Aces in Hold'em. đđClick to Subscribe! Pocket đFull Episodes: Pocket đđBest of Polly: https://bit.ly/2Ir. What is the definition of the term 'pocket Rockets' in poker? 'Pocket rockets' is the term that is given to the holding of pocket Aces (A-A) in Hold'em. Let's look at an example of when the term 'pocket Rockets' might be used: You are sitting in a $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em cash game at your local casino. Pocket Rockets for Poker Industry Veteran Tommy Bates. Posted 22:26 UTC-8 ChadHolloway. Level 31: 14,000-28,000, 3,500 ante. Share: Facebook Twitter. The #1 multi-dimensional grandson fighting simulator in the galaxy is back and better than ever! Youâre Rick Sanchez, everyoneâs favorite unstable genius. Youâre yelling at Morty in your garage when a Mysterious Rick pops out of a portal and ruins your life. He traps you in an unfamiliar dimension where you discover that Morty collecting and fighting is the hottest new trend in the.
Those Pesky Aces Got you Blue?
Thereâs a question for the ages, in poker terms. The short answer is âHah!â but the longer and more careful answer is, âIt depends on the game and conditions.â
Slow-playing a pair of pocket aces, particularly under the gun, is often an invitation to trouble, and as you grow in experience at the game, you will invariably run up against a player who never limps under the gun, always raising if heâs going to play â except in the rare case he has pocket aces. The idea, of course, is that he wants someone to raise from late position, so he can come back over the top with a hefty three-bet in an attempt to get lots of chips into the pot before the flop.
Once you encounter this particular breed of player and see this trait, youâll be able to limp behind with pocket queens, toss them away if other action compels you to, and toss them away for cheap after the flop if you donât connect for the set. The lesson: Donât be that type of player, and make your pocket aces so obvious by your position bets.
That said, there are some general rules you can adhere to if that 1-in-229-hand occurrence comes up, and you find yourself staring down at pocket rockets. The general rule is to play them a little bit faster then you might otherwise believe. Itâs easy to lose a lot of money with aces, perhaps even easier than it is to win a lot of money with them. So with that in mind:
First Rule, Donât Limp
Donât limp with your aces if you are at a soft, passive (often lower-stakes) table that often sees four or five or six players seeing a cheap flop. Pocket aces play very poorly against a large number of competing hands, and even though theyâre a prohibitive favorite against any other single hand, they can often be a large dog against a collection of other hands. Donât forget itâs the trash that connects to the flop that stays around and plays; the trash that misses folds and disappears from the hand. Coordinated flops like 9-10-J are absolute death for pocket aces in a multi-way pot. Throw them away and lick your wounds quietly.
Donât Always 3 Bet
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Conversely, donât always make the automatic three-bet in poker with pocket aces before the flop. When holding pocket aces, you want to limit the field, not destroy it. If thereâs a healthy raise pre-flop by an aggressive player, and your image is loose, go ahead and make the three-bet raise and mix it up at will. But another ploy that works well against tighter, more cautious players is called âsecond-hand lowâ. This is when an early-position player makes a healthy opening raise â perhaps $12 or $15 in a $1/2 cash game, and you just smooth-call from middle position. This gives a late-position player or one of the blinds the opportunity to look at a half-good hand like A-K and make a three-bet squeeze raise, which should have you dancing in your seat. Donât do this too often or become too devoted to other subtle tricks, lest you succumb to âfancy play syndromeâ, but the occasional subterfuge will improve your game and profit margin.
About the Pot Odds
Use your pocket aces to deny proper pot odds to your opponents. Whether in cash games or tournaments, a situation often arises where you can size your bets in such a way as to ensure a single opponent does not have the proper odds to continue in the hand, even though he may think he does. Imagine a cash-game scenario, playing something as simple as $1/2, where you and your opponent in a hand both have $120 in chips. He opens to perhaps $10, and you, holding pocket aces here, can go ahead and put in an undersized reraise to perhaps $25 to induce the call. While he is rightly guessing that his $15 call is worth it when thereâs $38 or more in the pot and your remaining $95 to potentially still be won, you have the knowledge that your aces are between 3.6:1 and 6:1 favorites heads-up before the flop against any other hand.
The likeliest hand to crack pocket aces is 10-9 suited, but the aces will still win 77% of the time. Play your aces just guarded enough against possible sets and flops that make âace-crackerâ hands work, but most of the time, following up with a sizeable post-flop bet is again the odds-on play. Often, your opponent will flop a flush or straight draw, and you must make it unprofitable for him to pursue that draw â even though many players canât resist the temptation and will call against the odds anyway. These players are your long-term victims, even if they are paradoxically the ones most likely to crack your aces in any given hand. Such is the nature of poker. We always remember the aces we lose with, but rarely the ones we win with!
Aces and Drawing Hands, The Crackers
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Beware drawing hands in deep-stack situations. A corollary to the above. No matter how pretty your pocket aces look, pocket aces donât beat straights and flushes. You must drive drawing hands out of the hand, and the only way to do that is to protect your aces with a large bet. Pre-flop that means limiting the field; post-flop that means putting in raises of at least three-quarters of the pot on each round to make sure your opponent doesnât have the right pot odds to chase those eight- and nine-outers.
Hitting a Set of Aces
If youâve flopped a set of aces, there is always a potential straight draw. This might sound odd, but a set of kings is often a far safer hand to slow-play after the flop than is a set of aces. Imagine yourself with a pair of pocket aces, and envision a flop of any three non-paired cards that include an ace. No matter what the other two non-ace cards are, if you let your opponents see the turn for free, a turn card that doesnât pair the board will always put some sort of straight in play. It might be a highly unlikely holding, such as the big blind holding 4-7 and the board through the turn showing A-5-J-8, but if youâve let this player see all these cards for free and a 6 comes off on the river (roughly a 1-in-11 chance), youâve only yourself to blame. You have to charge them something for the dream of making that hand.
No worthy bad beat story ever started with, âI limped with pocket acesâŚ.â Enough said.
Author:Joseph Falchetti (twitter)
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