Part 8. How to Deal Various Weak Hands
Various weak hands
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. Read more »
Part 4. If You Have High Unpaired Cards With Ace
Suited and not suited AK, AQ
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. Read more »
Part 3. If You Have Small Pairs and Someone Called the Big Blind
88, 77, 66
These hands are evidently weaker than the previous group and they should be played properly.
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. I use the combination of 20% of raises and 80% of calls. Read more »
Part 2. If You Have Middle Pairs and Threefold Raise from Third Position Player
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. Read more »
Who Enters the Pot in Holdem Poker?
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. It would be completely impossible to lighten all the possible raising, calling and folding combinations for each and every table position in a pot of holdem poker. I’ve classified them into five groups instead leaving you with good review of different possibilities. Read more »
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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