Re: Time to Devalue Big Slick (Cardplayer Article)
 

I am not a no limit-expert, but I have played quite a bit deepstack cashgame lately. I find this discussion a bit silly. AK is a bad hand if you overplay it postflop. JJ is a bad hand if you overplay it postflop. J9s can be a good hand if you play it well posflop (as can AK and JJ [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]). Give a donk AK every hand and he will lose all his chips. Give a top pro J9s each hand and he will do well.

Re: Time to Devalue Big Slick (Cardplayer Article)
 

With deep stacks, high card hands go down in value and pps ansd suited connectors go up. Brunson discussed this extensively in SS. He call all unsuited high card hands other than AK and AQ trouble hands.

The author discounts the value of bluffing, saying you can bluff with any two. However, AK is an excellent hand to semibluff with. With shallow money, you can often reraise allin or reraise so that you will commit all your chips on any flop.

With deep money it can be played similarly. You can reraise or raise limpers preflop and try to take it down. If you get reraised, you may be able to call or put in a 4th raise, depending on your read. If you get called, you can fire at most flops whether or not you connect. You can play 75s, 33, or 32o the same way, but you have more to fall back on with AK.