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
After the fourth card
After the fourth card your opponent drew a card that didn’t appear to help him as he checked his hand, again appearing to be drawing to a Flush or less likely to a Straight. After the fifth and sixth cards, again your opponent appears to be playing a drawing hand.
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Online Hold'em Poker Stories with Winning Lessons After the final seventh card (the river card), your opponent raised your bet. Remember, he’s a “poker expert”. Now what could he have? You need to assume he’s on a Spade-Flush draw and therefore you make a count of the number of Spades played. You have three Spades in your own hand. You remember earlier two Spades were exposed (Player 2 had the 2. and Player 3 had the 5.). Remember, your “expert” opponent needs five Spades for a Spade-Flush. If he has four already, he has a draw of four Spades from 33 unexposed cards. He has less than a 12% chance of drawing a Spade. There’s about $60 in the pot and it cost you only $5 to call his raise. Should you call? Or, should you show your own expertise at online hold'em poker and maybe raise?