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
Perceived Range
Perceived Range Most of everything in texas hold'em poker really comes down to two things. What your opponent thinks your range is, and what you think your opponent's range is. Based on those two things, it's a matter of properly selling or deceiving what your range is to your opponents, and properly reading what their range is without getting deceived. Becoming a master of convincing your opponent that you have a heavily weighted strong range when you are bluffing, and a weak range or bluff when you are strong can become quite the art in no-limit poker. With some practice and thoughtful execution, it's an aspect of texas hold'em poker that can separate you from the other regulars in the games you're playing.
A big part of your perceived range
A big part of your perceived range is going to depend on how you'd play a given range of hands in a particular situation. When you're first playing someone at your stakes, there's going to be a given "normal" way to play a range hands for the board that's in play. There will be some general assumptions made about your opponent until you can glean what their likely skill level is, and what level they are thinking about online hold'em poker on. Then, based on the history that you build with that opponent, and how you've seen them play past situations, you'll start to alter what their likely range will be in a particular spot.