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.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Also, hands like 77/88 A9o, K9s, T9s, JTo depend on how confident we feel about playing our opponent post flop. If you think if you have a reasonable advantage, flatting with these hands is fine, mixing in some 3-bets. Otherwise look to 3-bet or fold these hands.
Now polarizing some of this range while adding more hands so you can 3-bet some hands that have decent equity when called, and flatting some of the bigger hands like AQo, AJo, KQs, etc., a percentage of the time as well, will keep your opponents defense more off balanced. Of course, most opponents will know that you will defend lighter and 3-bet lighter. So how much, and with what kinds of hands, is important.