In a game of poker, playing the wrong starting hands could cost you dearly. I always recommend getting rid of the poorest cards first so that you are left with the strongest cards and the best deals. If you hit a card on the flop that would do no good for your starting hand would be too costly for you. Obvious as it may seem, this is one of the simplest rules I always recommend to win easily in poker. And I use some Pre-flop strategies in various hands in poker so that I always get rid of cards that don’t help me earlier on in the game

While playing poker, if I end up with AA or AK cards, it almost always helps me secure a win. I can safely bet all my chips and hope to make a small fortune. However, if you are an experienced player, and if you have a strong reason to believe that your opponent holds an AA card, then it is wiser to fold you AK cards before the flop. This comes only with experience and happens rarely. For instance, if one of the poker players bets a large number of chips, and immediately another puts in all his chips, it should ring an alarm bell, especially if the latter had made only small bets so far in the game. Sometimes my opponents have called with all sorts of pocket pairs and even with AQ and AJ. They don’t realize that these calls are terrible to begin with. But if you have AA and you make it look like AK then these are the type of calls you can get. Simply knowing how to handle your AA and AK cards and sometimes playing your AA cards like AK cards can help you win the game of poker easily.

Sometimes I use an online poker odds calculator to calculate my odds for AA or AK hands. However they are not completely reliable as they calculate the odds by selecting the remaining cards N number of times. Of course, the odds can be directly calculated using some complex mathematical relations. However this is a tedious process. But don’t worry! The more games you play, the better your pre-flop strategies will be. No matter what your hand is, you will be able to judge what you opponent hands are and play accordingly!