Hands to make mulah with

Most hold’em players and especially the beginners just can’t wait long enough for their AA to be dealt to them. The truth is that the AA, KK, AK etc. glitter and glory hands are mostly small winners or very big losers. These are not the hands to base your winning strategy on…in most cases your better off if you never see them, but then again, this is where experience comes in.

Glitter and glory cards.

Let’s say you are holding
And the board comes down as:

now you are on top of the world and can’t wait to take the money away from your opponent…you are eager and gullible to give your bank away…because your opponent has …you are left drawn out and sick to your stomach because you just lost your bank.

Now even if your opponent doesn’t have those pocket two’s…you have to be very careful in your betting, because as soon as you bet…your opponents are gone. So you check and you check down to the river then you bet big and your remaining opponent folds.

Mulah hands:

For these hands you have to be an extremely patient player because you are not only looking for the right cards to be dealt to you, but you are also looking for the right board…but when they hit, you can clean your opponent out.

Let’s say you are holding
And the board is:


Now with this hand you can break your opponent, because he is holding say or and he is willing to put it all in the center.

The idea behind poker is to accumulate money….not glitter and glory cards!...however waiting for the correct opportunity takes a vast amount of patience and when the time comes the mullah will flow!

Now these are only a couple of examples...but this is what you need to look for to make real money...forget the glitter and glory cards and the risk that goes along with them!

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i think your right about aces in that it will usually win you a good pot or lose you a lot
but the losing usually comes down to not being able to fold them quick enough. If it looks like you could be drawn out by a flush or a straight then id be more han happy to buy out the pot there with a large raise and take a smaller pot against the chance of losing a big pot to someone with a drawing hand

regarding your first example - if theres 2 aces on the board and youve got Ace king, the last thing i would do is worry about someone having a pair of 2's. Dont get me wrong - there is a possiblilty they may have it but if you thought like that all the time youd fold when you were winning more often than not. More than likely someone had a pair or a 2 if the called your raise

the most important thing to remember is that everything changes at the flop. This is why you must raise with aces - so that those drawing hands cant sting you. If someone does call your huge raise with a 78 suited and beats you - then take some pleaure that you did the right thing, they got lucky and if theyre playing like that your gonna end up winning if you stick to your game

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Surely the best situation is when your opponant flops the boat and you have the under boat, eg. your opponant has
K,Q and you hold KK and the flop comes :

K,Q,3,Q,5

That rocks you can easily clean them out!

In your remarks on my first example Fonz...I'm not saying you should fold, but am just stating fact on how you lose big, with glitter and glory cards.

In your second comment...that is exactly right...that is why you raise the proper amount pre-flop, I agree...but many players will try to trap, by slow playing.

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Someone was telling me the other day that the suited connectors have the best chance of beating pocket aces.But it always seems like its another pocket pair that catches a trip when I see them lose.Yesterday I saw them lose to two pair(24 somebody slow played and got caught by the big blind) and a straight.So maybe Im wrong.
I must admit Im one of those that gets overconfident with them and tend to ride them too far.I cant recall ever folding them even after the flop.Many times I should have though.

Damn right except AK because they have Straight Possibilities, in fact even non connectors are good for this as well, like 5,7 because you can hit multiple straights from Ace to Jack

I guess that what I am saying is don't base your game on the glitter and glory cards...because they can burn you....and keep an eagle eye open for the real opportunities that will make you a nice score without all the risk.

After all when you are holding glitter and glory cards...your opponents are probably holding them also and now its a matter of luck as to who comes out on top!

I am not just refering to AA,KK,AK and the like, but also AQ, KJ etc.

Gus Hanson and his type are looking for every opportunity that they can to get a big score with boards that look bland.
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this is very true crapshoot

I understand and agree to some of your point crapshoot, but do you really got the ball to call a pre-flop raise 5XBB with 89s??? most of the time this hand will take you down... Personally, I recommend that you only take the slowplayer out with this kind of hand, don't try to fool agressive player because you will pay for your open-ended str8 draw and get another Ace on the river... or simply not what you want