Pocket jacks, AQ, and to a lesser extent AK are the canonical “trouble hands” in poker. When I first started playing poker, AK had the nickname Anna Kournikova because it “looked pretty and never won.” Pocket jacks is a hand that you rarely want to fold, but it also often gets all-in vs. a higher pair, so it regularly loses big pots, which makes it ever…
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