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 How to Play Big Slick and Win more with it.
Big Slick is sometimes also called Anna Kornikova. Looks good but don’t do shit. I find most of the poker players that say that do not play this hand properly, nor do they look at it for what it is. It is a good starting hand but really just an Ace hi preflop. Still this hand is one that needs to be played aggressively not recklessly. I do see some poker players play this hand like it is invincible and loose their entire stack trying to win with it. So this hand requires you to play it aggressively but not to where you let it decide an entire Poker tournament.
So lets look at how to play Big Slick aggressively and not recklessly. For one if no one else has raised the blinds preflop you definitely want to raise the blinds to at lest 5 to 10 times the blinds. You do this to chase out the trash hands at the table. You will have to gauge what kind of raise this will take at the particular table you are at. If there is already a preflop raise at the table you want to reraise. There are two reasons for this. One is to find out where your opponent is in the hand. Lets say you double the original re raise if the poker player that made the original raise goes over the top of you or goes all in you will have to put him on a hi pocket pair. If that is the case you can minimize your losses and muck the hand. I know it is tough to lay down Big Slick but overtime you will have to fold it lots of times. So if you get a reraise or an all in you know they have the better hand going in and its best to toss the hand and minimize the loss. However if you just get called then you most likely have he best hand at the table. The other thing that this reraise does is it lets you dictate the action. You also are representing that you have a Hi pocket pair, which will give you the chance to take the pot down after the flop even if you don’t hit. So lets say you get a caller and the flop comes out trash. You if you are in good position you will most likely get checked to. That is where you need to follow up with a strong bet even if you don’t hit anything. Chances are the other guy didn’t hit anything either and will fold to a bet that would lead him to believe you have a hi pocket pair and with your preflop reraise it will certainly look that way. So you can take the pot down right there with just an Ace hi because of the way you played the hand. If they are betting in to you and you think you are beat toss the hand. Or if it is an aggressive poker player that you know will test you and make a bet in to you after the flop you might try a reraise if you get reraised again you will have to put him on an over pair or maybe two pair or trips. Remember some people do like playing suited connectors and semi connectors so if the flop hits something like 572 you could be looking at someone that hit two pair or is on a strong draw for a straight and if there are suited cards out you could be looking at a flush draw as well. So if you make a strong bet after the flop and you get called or reraised you will have to make a decision depending on the poker player you are facing’s past behavior. If you feel you are beat get out and minimize youre losses. However you will find that most of the time if you follow a strong preflop raise with strong postflop bet you will take the pot down most of the time. The other thing that will happens is that eventually your opponents will pick u p on the fact that you will bet with nothing if you make a preflop raise, so even when you do have a strong hand like you hit your set or even two pair you might get someone reraising you to test you. The other thing this does is it makes them fear you because they know that after the preflop raise they will have to call another strong raise after wards.
So this is how you play Big Slick aggressively but not recklessly. The key is to set yourself up to have a chance to win the pot even if you don’t hit or to find out where you are at in a hand and minimize your losses.
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