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
What are stack sizes?
What are stack sizes? As stacks get deeper this will expand your flatting range, and contract your 3-betting range since your opponent will have more incentive to call your 3-bets with a wider range. As stack sizes get narrower, this should have the reverse effect of widening your 3-betting range, and narrowing your flatting range.
Is your hand more of a drawing hand
Is your hand more of a drawing hand or top pair hand? So hands like 78s, JTo, T8s, etc., would be considered more drawing hands versus hands like KJo, ATo, QKs, etc., would be considered more top pair hands. Some hands are both, like KJs, QTs, etc. These hands have good drawing potential, but also good top pair value as well. Top pair only hands usually will make top pair as their best hand most of the time, and these hands are easier to get to showdown versus having a hand like 78s and making top pair. What kind of hand you have will help you decide, based on your stack size, if you should be 3-betting or flatting.