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
Final round of betting:
Final round of betting: You bet $5. Player 4 calls $5 and raises $5! There’s now over $60 in the pot. What do you do? Call $5, raise $5, or fold your hand? Hidden Thought: After the first 3 cards, your one remaining opponent (player 4, an aggressive, average player), appeared to “like” his first 3 cards and called your $5 bet, against your Ace. At this
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Online Hold'em Poker Stories with Winning Lessons point in the hand, your opponent did not bet when given the chance, he therefore indicated that he didn’t have Three Sixes. He’s notorious for being an aggressive player who would bet and raise a starting hand with Three-of-a-Kind. Most likely your opponent started with a hidden pair, or a draw for a Straight. Your opponent could not likely have a Flush draw, due to the eight exposed Hearts. In addition, you noted that your opponent continued to call maximum $5 bets without obvious improvement. He didn’t pair his first card (the Six of Hearts), nor did he pair any cards on his board, nor did he get assistance with a Straight draw (assuming he had three starting cards of 4, 5, 6 or 5, 6, 7 or 6, 7, 8.) Therefore, he most likely started with a hidden Pair, (such as a pair of Queens, Jacks, or Nines). Since he’s a very aggressive player, if he would have hit Three-of-a Kind by drawing a Queen or a Jack on board, or if he would have drawn even Two Pairs, he would have raised and been excited. All things considered, your analysis indicates your opponent has a Queen-High or at best a Single Pair. In addition, since all four Aces are exposed he can’t have an Ace-High Straight. The only possible Straight would be a Queen-High Straight. In addition, one of the Nines he would need for his straight is exposed