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 both you and your opponent
In the above example both you and your opponent started with effective stacks of 100 BBs in a full ring cash game. Everyone folded to you in middle position and you raised 3.5x the BB with AcQc. The action folded to the button who called the raise and the blinds folded.
You look at your notes
You look at your notes and you notice that you put down that your opponent was an ATC 2. You don’t have any other notes beyond that and you’ve only played 8 rotations with this opponent. The flop comes: 7c3dTc and you make a ¾ size pot bet with your nut flush draw and two over cards. Your opponent then mini-raises you on the flop and you call the raise. The turn comes the 6c giving you the 2nd nuts. Do you slow down? No, you should continue to bet this hand aggressively against this type of opponent. It’s very likely that they may try and represent the flush by raising your bet. You don’t however want to bet too aggressively in THIS particular situation. A half size pot bet will invite a possible raise which is what you want. Give your aggressive opponent a little room to hang themselves, but don’t get fancy and check. Just continue to bet into these opponents.