Quote Originally Posted by bunthorne
Quote Originally Posted by chewbaka
How far would you go with Big Slick pre-flop and post flop on a 6-handed ring-game

Preflop: Barring any reads.. Would you fold it after a re-raise of 8xBB?

Postflop: FLop comes 49 Q rainbow, one bets, one calls, would you call?

Generally, are there any rule on how to play big slick. I always seem to get beaten by trips or getting bluffed out :(
I believe that AK is the key hand in a poker tournament. You have to win with it against pocket pairs and you have to beat it when your opponent has it. More often than not the decisive hand in a tournament (not necessarily the last hand) involves one player holding AK . I also believe that AK is the most misplayed hand in poker.

Preflop, you can reraise with AK or flat call the raise, depending on the situation. If the pot is raised and reraised preflop, you should just call. You could consider moving in if there are 3 or 4 other players in the pot with you - the idea of moving in is not only to try to reduce the field but to see the entire board - with AK you want to see all five cards as, until the A or K pairs, the hand is nothing. The only hand you are really afraid of is AA - even KK is not so bad as you could hit the A to beat it. Moving all in would prevent you from being bluffed.

On the flop following a bet and a call, if you have missed then you must fold. You have nothing and are almost certainly behind. Easy play.
I like the advice after the flop here. It is exactly how I play it. However preflop if I am faced with a raise of 8 times the BB I will probably throw it away. Unless the guy making the raise is a known maniac or I am short stacked in a tournament than I stroke it all in.
Lets I am in a cash game, I have called a raise 8 times the BB and the flop comes down K72 rainbow. I have hit top pair. But I have no confidence that my opponent doesn’t have aces. I have to put him on a big pair seeing as there are 2 kings out I have to hope he has QQ and not AA.
The even worse scenario is flop comes K72 and my opponent is holding KK. Not very likely but I have run into it many, many times. That’s why with AK I like to be the one raising not calling raises.
Now faced with a small raise, I will reraise to see where I stand.