Playing Ace Queen can win you lots of money but there are a few things that you have to watch. Ace Queen is far from being a pat hand and is even more shaky tha Ace King because you have a strong probability that you will not flop a Queen before you flop a king. If you have to call three bets cold with an Ace Queen throw the hand away and save your money.

If you do hit the flop all that you are going to have is a pair of aces or a pair of queens and those boys who bet ahead of you are not all bluffing. All of these hands I call the Black Jack handsbecause they all add up to 20 or 21. Ace King,Ace Queen,Ace Jack,Ace Ten,King Queen, King Jack, King Ten, Queen Jack, Queen Ten, and Jack Ten. Pocket dueces will beat them everytime. I know that they give you a psychological charge if you have been playing as you should, a couple of hands an hour, and throwing away the garbage hands. Contrary to all the odds, they can look like sure winners, if all that you have been looking at are hands like 3/9 or Jack/Six off suit. Beat down your excitement with thoughts of humiliating defeat and poverty and chuck the hands into the muck pile if you can'y just limp into the pot.