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.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
How do others likely perceive me? How active or tight have you been at the table? Have you showed down some big hands or very marginal hands?
You should be asking yourself these questions every time you're making a pre-flop decision. If you're missing any of them in your thought process, it's important to take note and make sure you starting asking yourself. Most of the time your decision will be easy; You'll look down at Ks4s and muck it. However, in some situations this same hand could be a call or a 3 or 4-bet if the questions are all answered properly.