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
In the above example, your opponent opens
In the above example, your opponent opens on the button to 2.5 BBs, and you flat call out of the big blind with KcQd with effective stacks of 110 BBs. The flop comes Jc7c3d. You check to your opponent, and your opponent fires out a continuation bet of 4 BBs into a 6 BB pot. You check min-raise to 8 BBs and your opponent folds.
Your opponent will be getting 4.5:1 on a call, but it will be extremely difficult to call
Your opponent will be getting 4.5:1 on a call, but it will be extremely difficult to call with Ax, 66–44, 22. These are hands that have very good equity against you that you can get to fold out. There are some hands you beat that you will get to fold out, but there are a good amount of drawing hands they could pick up on the turn that won't fold if you check/call and lead the turn. But most importantly you will fold out Ax hands that will have over 70% equity against you, and some hands that will have trouble continuing like small pairs that have almost the same equity.