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
There will generally be
There will generally be more hand range groupings on a board like this that you'll want to balance out and play differently depending on your opponent. Gutshots, air, and small pairs will usually not have much equity versus your opponent’s continuation betting range. Turning this portion of your range into bluffs is going to take a considerable amount of fold equity to do profitably. It's going to generally be better to lead with some of these hands, give up, or plan to make some big bluffs against the right opponents.
Some more viable lines
Some more viable lines on these kinds of boards are to lead with top pair+, and gutshots. Sometimes mixing in some check/calling and leading the turn as well. Check- raising generally isn't going to be a very profitable line against most decent opponents because it's going to narrow down your range too much. If you look at the above table, and make any kind of similar range of hands on a similar board, you're always going to be a significant dog with anything but your top pair+ hands. Most opponents will narrow down your range to two pair+ and big combo draws. It's still a decently wide range, and at micro and a lot of small stakes games you can do this. As your opponents get better, check/raising these kinds of boards won't be as viable.