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
If you get raised on the flop
If you get raised on the flop you can 3-bet the flop and represent a monster looking to induce a raise. There's really little reason for your opponent to raise on such a dry board, and the small bet and flop 3-bet will confuse most opponents. Depending on your stakes, and what kind of weak regular your opponent is, you can get a lot of Qx hands to fold out as well.
Check Min-Raise Lead:
Check Min-Raise Lead: A slightly more risky line, but one that works well against a fairly wide range of opponents, except absolute fish who can't fold hands. A decent percentage of opponents won't fold to min-raises, but when they do it's a cheap way to re-steal. When they do call, you have setup your hand to look like a monster, so you can fire a reasonably sized turn bet of 2/3rds to 3/4ths of the pot and expect to get folds from a lot of your opponent’s range on most board textures.