Hand Play Query

[hayward2k]

Hi folks, I thought I would try and pick your brains if you could spare a few mins. I've been playing NL hold 'em for a while now and had successes aswell as bad times. One thing that I think will make or break my play in the future is learning how to play a big hand properly. I know most of it comes down to posistion and circumstance but for instance - Say im holding AK (off) which i raise substantially pre-flop with. The flop comes 2 7 10 (rainbow) and i'm now under the gun, what move do i make? Ok basically what i want to know is - Should I represent a big pocket pair and bet big to try and win the pot there and then. Or check and possibly show weakness allowing another player to make a big bet and steal an already large amount of chips away from me? This is probably where im most flawed in poker and where my game gets broken. Any advice would be much appreciated :ok

[PAULM03]

Re: Hand Play Query AK is a bugger of a hand. Personally I just play it big pre-flop. Raise 5 times BB and hopefully get as few people as possible seeing the flop. I'll usually flat call a raise. In good position if no-one makes any significant show of strength then I'll bet, otherwise I'll just let it go. IMO letting this hand go is one of the hardest but most essential things for any player to be able to do.