Hand Analysis: 2-K
Posted by admin on January 7th, 2010King deuce, when it’s suited, becomes a hand people might be willing to play in short handed online poker games. The idea of making a king high flush can be a lucrative one, especially when you are able to win pots by sheer pressure. But in a full ring poker game, and for the most part, K 2 is a hand not built for speed. It might work for your heads up, where a king is better than a wide variety of random hands your opponent might get dealt, but for functional purposes, you won’t ever hear somebody wishing they’d get dealt the gnarly king and deuce. So what’s the best way to respond when you do get stuck this in the hole? Obviously folding is a good idea. In tournaments, from late online poker position, it can be worth raising to try to pick up blinds if they’ve gotten high enough to be worth snatching, and your opponents are prone to laying down. Other than straight thievery, though, or the occasional benevolent flop when you’ve been using the hand for its pressure, the king two just isn’t a hand that has much of anything going for it. You’d be better off walking home. Context context context! Patience, resilience! Poise!