But generally, the majority of flops will be good for our KK. There are also some spots where we need to bet bigger to protect our hand as we don’t want to give a free hand – boards that are dry but have a flush draw, for example. It would be a disaster to bet and get raises by some draw, against which we are still the favorite on the flop. On very wet boards, full of draws like 789 with 2 spades, it makes sense to pot control and not be too thrilled about cbetting. If we are in a 3bet pot, we most often stack off. On dry boards, it is very common to go for all 3 streets of value. We need to play it very carefully from then on.īut when there is no A present, then we can go for multiple streets of value. (50 of QQ hands (6 combos), roughly 13 of the AA hands (3 combos), and 33 of the KK hands (3 combos).
In percentage terms, you'll win a bit more than 33 of the time. Naturally, if A hits, that is an action killer for our kings. If you go with your assumptions here that only AA, KK and QQ will 4 bet shove, you'll be a major dog half the time, and the other half the time you'll be a coinflip. But is it that much better also postflop? Yes, but it depends on the flop. In the table above, you can see how much better KK is than AK against other hands.
