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Hello,
Here is an extremely interesting spot, someone having AK, and the other one 22.

In 38% of cases, you will find no A/K/2 on the table, and likely will need to know river which hand is stronger than the other one.

How are you doing it? There is a lot of ways to send informations with both of those hands, and I'm curious to know yours before I tell you mine.

In theory 22 should take the higher chip. But since AK will defend it and it will get hard to distinguish between AK and another low pocket like 33, it's tough. If there is a lot of flight for the high chips, I sometimes will just take a lower one and depending on the community cards will readjust in the following rounds, when it's convenient. Best case is, a 3 shows up, then you're safe to adjust accordingly.

Romain672 wrote: ↑24 August 2026, 21:28 Hello,
Here is an extremely interesting spot, someone having AK, and the other one 22.

In 38% of cases, you will find no A/K/2 on the table, and likely will need to know river which hand is stronger than the other one.

How are you doing it? There is a lot of ways to send informations with both of those hands, and I'm curious to know yours before I tell you mine.

Simple. In signaling ranges, and logic I'm using, PP is 6 (5 in a game with 5 players), and A is 5 ( 4 in a game with 5 players). So in this case AK is top possible 5, and 22 is lowest possible 6. Easy to signal, easy to know. One of benefit's you get if a PP has its own chip and rest cards are divided into equal ranges (by card values, not probabilities the Wiki/AI provided).