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
How aggressive are they post flop?
How aggressive are they post flop? a. Against more passive opponents (general aggression under 3AF): If they are passive on later streets, then you can expand your flatting range. Again, the more they open, the more you should expand this, and the tighter they are the tighter your flatting range should become. Something in the range of: J9s+, QTs+, KTs+, A9s–AJs, ATo–AQo, KTo+, QTo+, 77–TT. Sometimes consider 3-betting AQo/TT and any other hands that are on the bottom of this range that you don't feel comfortable playing out of position. In general though you will be ahead of most of your opponent’s range. Against someone who is opening about 34% of their range, you'll have a 52.3% pre- flop advantage. Take a couple of hands out at the bottom of your range and you can get it closer to 54%, which is reasonably good pre-flop. Take that same flatting range above, and tighten your opponent’s range to opening about 27% of hands, and your equity drops to about 49.5%. So the bottom of the above range needs to be tightened to account for this to something like: KTs+, A9s–AJs, ATo–AQo, KTo+, QJs, 77–TT.
Against more aggressive opponents (3AF or greater):
Against more aggressive opponents (3AF or greater): You need to eliminate some of your baseline flatting range and turn those into 3-bets or folds simply because you will be outplayed too often post flop. So something in the following range: J9s+, QTs+, KTs+, A9s–AJs, ATo–AQo, KTo+, QTo+, 77–TT. Hands like J9s, JTs, QTs, A9s, KTo, or 77 should be 3-bet or folded. You can tighten that up even more against really tricky opponents. The more aggressive and the tighter your opponent is, the more you're going to want to tighten, polarize, and eliminate situations where you're out of position with marginal hands.