Don’t touch my big blind...

You see it all the time on the poker tables. A raise pre flop and big blind calls every time. Once chips are in play the big blind rarely folds his cards. This can be very dangerous but also an easy win of a lot of chips. You can never know what the big blind is playing. He can play two strong cards and he can play any two and win at the end by hitting his draw on the river. There are players who play their big blind every time, thinking only about not losing the blind bet. Some players in big blind even answer with a reraise which means “don’t touch my big blind”. But you can also win lots of big blinds chips, if he is playing this way. He loses not only his big blind bet, he also loses his playing chips very fast and therefore his play/tournament too.

STARTING HAND ACE FOUR

A 4 starting hand also called “Transvestite”or “Blind Man’s Aces”. Called this because you see the first ace, and the 4 looks like another, but it turns out not to be.

Ace Four off suit (A4) pre flop statistics are not so good. In the ranking this hand is placed in the 104^thposition and the probability of being dealt Ace Four off suit is only 0.9 %. It is not recommended to play this hand in any position, except in small or big blind if there is no raise before. But A 4 off suit is better than A3, A2 and A6 off suit and any other ace free off suit hand smaller than K8.

Suited A 4 in opposite belongs to a range of very good starting hands like suited A2, A3, A5, AT, AJ, AQ and AK. These starting hands generate a positive return in the value charts, which analyze the rate of return of each starting hand.

The “Blind Man’s Aces” are not pocket Aces but if they are suited and played correctly you can win a nice pot.