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How to play pocket Kings

Cowboys, King Kong, Kangaroos are nicknames for KK. This hand is often called Ace Magnets by pessimistic expressing the fear that an ace will appear.
Although it is the second hand in value, you should pay attention to this hand. Mere presence of an ace must put you in guard because you have your hand canceled by a bigger pair. The presence of an Ace can also scare you, someone trying to bluff you.
The probability that an Ace to appear in the flop is almost 20% so it’s very important to raise pre-flop. The purpose is to eliminate poor hands that may become strong and to increase the pot. Your raise should be large enough to scare weak hands and enough to find out the strength of your opponent’s hand.
There are 2 particular cases:
1.A flop without an Ace
This is a good situation, but you should be careful. You should continue to bet in a manner that will allow you to extract as much as possible from your opponents and to remove the weak hands. You don’t want to give to someone the opportunity to make two pairs, for example so you have to start playing some aggressive poker. We don’t recommend slow-play in this situation.
2.A flop  with an Ace
This is an undesirable situation, but the situation may be moving in your favor: if you’re in early position make a small bet to find out who is holding an Ace (the one who has in hand an Ace will re-raise you) so you can fold. By betting you can also scare the opponents and take the pot. If you are in middle or late position and someone place a small bet you can call, but if he’s making a big bet you should fold.
As a general rule, you have to play this hand aggressively and you must know when to fold. Many beginners over estimate the KK and when it’s obvious the opponent has two Aces they don’t fold.


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ty for ur stradegy on KK but i raise preflop everytime almost and still get beat by some donkey with 97 off suit or some other crap hand that shouldn'nt be in the pot in the first place, i guess this is where the donkey commandments come to affect i read earlier here

sorry put this in the wrong place, suppost to go under KK

I always play these with extreme caution because they always seemed to get cracked.  I play them like any other pocket pair with hopes of hitting a set.  Now if I;m playing live, I;ll slow play these and strike at the end.