In late (sixth) position or on the button you wouldn’t like to make a raise three times higher than the big blind. Your bet in this case is more likely to be interpreted as trying to steal the pot and less likely as a bet simply to increase the pot, and you’d like to stimulate bargaining because hands calling in response will be a little weaker than usually.
In sixth position I would play suited king-ten, king-nine and queen-ten. I would play them varying folds and raises fifty to fifty. And when I raised I would try and steal the pot by a simple raise three times higher than the big blind.
I have one uncommon move that I like to use with suite. If I’m in first or second position I will raise on them in 15% of cases pretending that I have top pair.
In third and fourth positions get rid of them as well. You can start playing these hands from fifth position. When you play them tend to raise in order to lower the necessity of seeing flop. Use the following raise and call correlation – 70% of cases to 30%.
In early position I would simply fold not suited ace-ten and at a serious table give up ace-jack. At a table with not so serious players I would try and play ace-jack with 50% of raises and 50% of calls.
Now we turn to hands without pairs. There are two strongest combinations among them: ace-king (big sleak) and ace-queen, which can be played almost the same as high pairs. Note that these hands are strong enough in order to (unlike smaller unpaired hands) make similar moves regardless of their suit.
You will play these hands in early position anyway but more carefully. You’ll prefer to enter bargaining with these middle-small pairs by limping but you need to add a few raises to cheat your opponents.
This is the most advantageous situation since no one at the table has yet shown any strength and a bet can easily win the pot. Let’s see how you should act with various hands in certain situations.
What hands you decide to fold, call or raise depends mostly on the bargaining you’ve seen before you and on your position at the table. You have one set of criteria for the situations when all players before you have folded their cards and completely another one if two players have already made raise and reraise.
Unlimited Holdem Poker Main Strategy in Preflop
On the next few pages I will describe main bargaining strategy in preflop.
This is a general strategy which shows my actions in the following situations:
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April 25, 2011 12:49 pm | 
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