Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The Labouchère Betting System
The Labouchère Betting System Also known as ‘Cancellation’, ‘Crossout’, ‘Labby’ and ‘Split Martingale’, the Labouchère has been around for a very long time. It is a negative progression system. The user of such a strategy decides, before playing, how much money they want they want to win and writes down a list of positive numbers that add up to that amount. The list does not have to be sequential. It can be short or long. To determine your bet, you add the first and last numbers and place a bet equal to the total of the numbers. If you win the bet, cross out the first and last numbers in the series and move along to the new first and last numbers. If the bet is unsuccessful, the amount lost is added to the end of the list and so it becomes the new number at the end of the list. The process continues until the list is completely crossed out, at which point the desired amount of money has been won, or until the holdem player has run out of money to stand. The theory behind this strategy is that since you are crossing out two numbers for every win and adding a number for every loss, is that you always turn a profit when you finally finish cycling through your entire betting series by winning all bets (even winning the ones you lost back). Once the cycle is finished, you can start again. BUT, you will (without doubt) have the best advantage if you learn how to card count and bet accordingly.
Card Counting
Card Counting The basic principle behind card counting is that high cards, particularly Aces and 10s, are better for the holdem player while it is desired that the dealer be dealt lower-valued cards, namely 4s, 5s and 6s. A high concentration of Aces and 10-valued cards increase the chances of a Blackjack and 10s improve the value of doubling. A high number of ten or ten-value cards also makes the insurance bet more profitable. Low cards are good for the dealer: he must hit stiff hands (hard hands totalling 12 through 16), unlike the holdem player who can hit or stand according to strategy… Tens will bust all stiff hands and increase the chances of the dealer losing.