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or

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Short-handed No Limit Hold’em: Planning a Hand

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Having a plan for how to play a hand in poker is a necessity and the time to make this plan is the flop (not pre‐flop because there the situation is still too complicated). The plan should be a decision about what pot size will be optimal in the situation and also how to achieve that pot size. There is a big difference between betting all‐in yourself for instance, as opposed to check‐calling an all‐in. Some situations call for the first one, some call for the second one. The more information and considerations taken into account when making a plan, the better the plan will be, and the more money you can expect to make on the hand. More precisely, the more accurate information and relevant considerations are taken into account the better a plan will be.

For example, someone might have the wrong read on an opponent and apply that to a plan – obviously that plan will not fare very well (and if it does, it will be accidental). Or if a person believes one concept is very important in a situation but in fact it may not be relevant, then again the plan is a poor one. The only way to become good at poker is to make a lot of plans and study, and then you will improve and your plans will be more precise.

Slow-Playing

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There are times when slow-playing a hand pre-flop may be more advantageous than re-raising it for value. Simply put, when you think your opponent or players yet to act will make a bigger mistake against your specific holding than if you re-raise with it, then it could be better to slow-play.

Other advantages to slow-playing pre-flop include the fact that it makes you less predictable not only pre-flop, but also post-flop. Firstly, if you call with large pairs some of the time pre-flop, especially in late position, you will be less susceptible to light re-raises, squeeze plays, because your opponents will have to be wary of your slightly stronger range. If your opponents are not wary, then they are making more of a mistake against your range by re-raising with the same frequency pre-flop, which means you will win more money from them. Additionally, you will be given a bit more credit if you choose to bluff-raise a continuation bet on a board like 2d3d8h because your opponent will have to include some slow-played large hands in your range.

Four-Betting

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There are two main reasons to four-bet preflop.
1. For value. You have a strong hand with which you want to build a pot. You are happy to get all the money in preflop versus the three-bettor.
2. As a bluff. If you plan to fold to a five-bet, your four-bet is a bluff. You should have a specific read that the following are both true about the villain:

  • A. He is three-betting with a range that includes a lot of weak hands.
  • B. He is likely to fold to a four-bet. This needs to be emphasized. There are players who three-bet a very wide and a very weak range (with hands like K9o) but also like calling four-bets. Don't four-bet these players lightly.

Flop Textures

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We could look at the three card flop in a very complicated way and look at each card individually versus the others. But the nice thing about poker is that only so many different kinds of flops can come up; in other words we can simplify the boards into certain textures. We should always be looking for simple ways to process information efficiently, and compartmentalizing textures can help.

The texture of a flop is simply what the flop looks like. Certain textures appear more comfortable and allow for more peeling, and other textures are scary and make people fold more. Let’s look at some basic flop textures, and talk about how people tend to approach them:

  • 0 Broadway Card: (8spades6clubs2hearts or 9diamonds8clubs5diamonds). These boards have no broadway cards (T/J/Q/K/A) on them. These boards tend to allow lots of comfortability for single pairs, and thus peeling frequencies increase. Non-broadway card boards do not look like they hit the preflop raiser (as players heavily assign hands like AK and KQ to open raising ranges). These boards also tend to get attacked more often as well. Players love to “bluff the raiser off their AK” and raise more liberally on these types of boards. While a good player wouldn’t choose this board type to attack a CB as often, bad players love them.

General Pre-Flop Guidelines by Game Type

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Taking the template we used to define the four basic player types, we can define basic game textures and change our play accordingly.

If the game is mostly loose-passive: You can see quite a few flops in such a game. If it’s costing you the minimum to see a flop, then the implied odds make it correct to see the flop with a wide variety of hands. Furthermore, since the players are playing mostly a loose-passive game, you’ll get cheap draws when you are trying to make a hand, and you’ll be paid off when you have one. You can and almost always should play all pairs, suited connectors, unsuited connectors, suited gappers, and even unsuited gappers. There are some trouble hands you should stay away from such as KT, A9, et cetera. Being drawn out on in a game such as this is always a concern, but with a hand such as A9 you must also be cautious about the possibility that you are dominated. However, I will often see the flop with hands as poor as 86 or even 74s. While the danger of being drawn out on is just as real, if I hit one of these hands, I am likely to be all alone with it and receive full value out of it as well.

December Value Added Tournaments at CarbonPoker

December Value Added TournamentsCarbonPoker (US friendly poker room) wants to fill this Holiday Season with incentives! We are achieving this Christmas cheer by adding a collective $5,000 to December poker tournament prize pools. The added $5k will be split into five equal $1,000 amounts, and the tourney buy-ins will range from $1 + $.10 to $10 + $1.

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Poker Decisions

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Most decisions in poker are easy. You get dealt 7-2 in hold'em or (2-5)-J in 7-stud and you fold. You do not have to give it a second thought. You either flop a four-flush in hold'em or have an open-ended straight draw on fourth street in 7-stud and you know you are in for the long haul. A careful analysis of pot odds is only necessary for the close decisions.

By definition, if it is a close decision you neither gain nor lose very much one way or the other. If it is a close call, even though you are being asked to call $10 or $20, you will only lose (or win) a fraction of that amount in the long run. There is no way around the fact that you will require a thorough understanding of pot odds if you are to maximize your winnings. You can, however, be a winning player at low-limits with only a passing understanding.

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