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 general, if you're not comfortable
In general, if you're not comfortable calling in a re-raised pot out of position, then you need to be tightening up your opening range when you have reasonably aggressive 3- bettors who have position on you. If you're normally opening say 28%, like in the above example, but you have a player on the button who 3-bets 14% in that dynamic, you need to considerably reduce your opening range. You'd need to cut off anywhere from 6–10% from your open raising range to play the situation profitably. Make sure you're adjusting your range, based on the opponents that have position on you.
Being 3-bet by a short stack
Being 3-bet by a short stack There are a lot more short stackers in today's games, and ones that are slightly more competent then they were in the past. We'll define a short stack as anyone with a stack between 15––35 BBs. On most online online hold'em poker sites the minimum buy-in is 20––30 BBs, so most short stackers will be around this range. One of the most important things when facing a short stacker is knowing what kind of short stacker they are, because your calling ranges are going to vary depending on this.