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
You flop a set
You flop a set of 5’s with 2 Hearts on the flop. Your opponent has a flush draw, but in this case he has less than 9 outs because some of his outs will give you a full house.
In this case your opponent
In this case your opponent has less than a 4 to 1 chance of making his flush and winning. You can bet less than in the previous hand and still deny him of correct pot odds. In this situation, you may want to bet half the pot instead of 2/3.