How to play pocket jacks

How to play pocket jacks

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Shady9977 Nibs: 514 Member Since: Feb 6th 2008

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         Pocket Jacks is the hand that everyone loves to hate. Experienced poker players have had their Jacks run down countless        times, and struggle to find the right way to play it. Fortunately, there IS a way to play pocket Jacks and consistently rake in nice pots.
Here’s how:

         Let’s say you’re at an 8-man no limit table and the blinds are $2-4. You’re third to act before the flop. And you have J-J.You raise to 30$.This is a rather large pre-flop raise at this table. Most of your opponents are only raising to $10 or maybe $20 before the flop. But
you’re not going to make a wimpy raise with your hooks. No way. You’re either going to rake in the blinds NOW, or narrow the field to one caller, two at the most. If there are more than two opponents in the hand you’re going to lose. If you had only made an $8 pre-flop raise that five players called, you’d better spike a jack on the flop… because that’s the only way you’ll win the pot. But you don’t want to WASTE your pocket Jacks and give up on them like that… so you make the large raise. And it works out perfectly. Darren is the only player to call your bet.

        The flop hits: K-9-4

        You’re first to act. Now… if you had let more than two players see this flop, someone would’ve had the King. But since only Darren is in the hand, you know he probably doesn’t have it. He’s probably on the Ace. So you go with the odds and fire out a $50 bet as though the King helped you. Darren mucks it. He was holding A-Q.

        And THAT,is the way i ussualy play J-J. Your goal should be to create heads-up action. If no one calls, that’s fine. You rake the blinds. If you DO get a caller, bet again on the flop… regardless of what hits. Chances are you still have the best hand. You’ll be
amazed at how many pots you take down by following these simple two steps.

        Is not a large blog today but i think that this will help you if you try it.

Hope enjoy reading!

Comments (1)

Posted on Jul 15th 2008 by PI_Viceroid $30 raise preflop on a 2/4 table is far too much to bet with JJ. Imagine someone with KK/AA at your left. Also most of the time no one will call the bet, and when they do they will have QQ/KK/AA/AKs Meaning that when you get called you will lose more time that win.