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.
The dealer flips up the final card It’s a Deuce! The board has Four Deuces and a Queen. Suddenly you’re feeling sickly. If your opponent has an Ace, any Ace, she has the nuts (an unbeatable hand). Even if she has a King, she’ll beat you. Your Queens, although looking very good just a few seconds ago, suddenly look like trash. Your opponent looks at you and smiles as she bets. Her smile seems reassuring, beautiful, warm, and friendly. It makes you feel confident and happy. So happy you decide to raise!
Online Hold'em Poker Stories with Winning Lessons She looks back at you and she calmly suggests you both put all of your chips in the pot. She pushes about $300 in chips into the pot and you also push a little over $200 into the pot. You look at her again, you suddenly wonder, was this a bluff? You think, she must have the nuts and is trying to take every single chip I have! You look at her again, she seems kindly. She doesn’t seem to be acting. She seems sincere and helpful. So, being exhausted, not thinking straight, believing that you’re still on a “heater,” you call her table limit raise. She turns over her cards, Ace-Ace!