News: All that glitters is not gold

The next video of our new beginner strategy has arrived and this time we'll take a good look at deceptively strong looking small offsuit Aces.

At the end of last year, KTU introduced our innovative new beginner strategy. It consists of individual videos, each focusing on single hole card combinations.

In contrast to previous strategies, you won't just get general rules to follow. Instead you will receive specific strategic tips as well as an explanation as to why this advice is important.

Besides pocket pairs, the strongest suited hands and big broadways, we've previously also dealt with almost any ace, except small offsuit Aces. Today, we will therefore take a closer look at these types of hands.

How to play small offsuit Aces?

Since it's the best card in the game, people generally tend to overrate hands that include an Ace. That's particularly true for small offsuit Aces like Ace-Nine or Ace-Five.

While these hands surely offer reasonable equity in many spots, this perspective can be quite misleading. Generally, the playability of small offsuit Aces is so bad that playing them can quickly turn into a nightmare for an inexperienced player. Still, there are spots in which you have to be able to handle these hands, especially in blind stealing situations.

Therefore, we will show how to handle spots in which defending your big blind with small offsuit aces makes sense, providing general guidelines to help you figure out how to react to the different postflop lines your opponent could choose in these spots.

How to play small offsuit Aces

With our new beginner strategy, you will learn how to play individual hands step-by-step, always topped off with the theory on which the strategy is built. This enables you to deviate from an overly static approach at the table whenever you feel it's necessary.

Our overview matrix provides videos to all the hands that we've explained so far. Just click on a hand you want to learn more about to get to the video: