It’s easy to look down in a poker cash game at the casino and see an ace with any other suited card and immediately think you’ve got a hand worth at least calling bets made before you, if not (in more reckless cases) raising. For those of you who read that opening sentence and though, “Yeah, why not, ace suited!” I would offer the following advice: one of the quickest ways to put a plug in a leak your cash or tournament poker game might be suffering is to eliminate this hand from those you consider gold.

For the most part, and over the long term, playing ace suited is a losing proposition. When you are playing the hand, particularly for a raise, what hand are you trying to make? Obviously the flush is the main objective (which will happen only a small amount of the time, and might cause you to gamble when you do flop the flush draw). You also might makes aces up, but this again is a rarity, and once again can get you to go in with too much money when you have strong holding but not the nuts.

For the most part, then, suited aces look better than they actually play out, and you can delete a whole wing of second rating by letting them go.

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