Imagine the following scenario:  you are on the bubble in the World Series of Poker Main Event and, for some reason, you let your chip stack get so low that you are now all-in in the big blind.  If you are eliminated right now, you go home with nothing.  Win the hand and you will almost assuredly outlast one more player to make the money and pocket at least $20,000.  Everybody folds to the small blind, who, for the puny cost of one more small blind, officially puts your tournament life on the line.  Your heart sinks as he flips over pocket Aces.  You haven’t looked at your cards yet.  What do you want your hole cards to be? The absolute novice would probably think for a tenth of a second and say, “Pocket Kings!”  After all, that is the next best hand to Aces.  But after a moment of thought, most any person who has played the slightest bit of poker would realize that this is the wrong answer, as Kings only have two direct outs to beat Aces (I say direct because, of course, the Kings could still turn into a straight or flush with the right four cards on ...