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 a similar vein
In a similar vein there are slightly more ideal lines to take with particular hands on certain board textures. Even as you're balancing your range, you'll note based on the previous pages, there may be some lines you will take rarely. You'll take a particular line with lots of different hand groupings, but rarely or almost never with some that won't make for very profitable lines long term, especially against opponents you don't have much history with.
begin to build history
begin to build history with an opponent, or you think you have an idea of how your opponent is likely thinking about the game, you can begin to take some lines that add deeper balance and deception to your hand strength. This will typically involve taking lines on the flop and/or turn that against unknown opponents wouldn't typically be the highest EV line to take. However, you're looking to make up this EV with large bets, check- raises, or over shoves on the turn or river. Your opponent is so confused by how you played your hand that they call bigger bets lighter than they would on average because they can't put you on enough hands that would take this line and beat them.