Suited Cards in Holdem Poker #7

How Do You Use Suited Cards to Your Advantage?

Suited cards

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. I have to bluff from time to time in early position and suite as randomizer keeps my opponents from reading my bluff. When liaisons turn in a strong hand on the flop, hardly can anyone suspect me of having it, and when in the end I open the winning hand my opponents remember it for long time. Read more »

Group 3: Small Pairs & Big Blind Call - Texas Hold em Tips

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 »

Group 1: No One Has Yet Begun Bargaining for the Pot

Part 1. If No One Has Entered the Pot Yet

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. Read more »

Who Participates in Holdem Poker Pots?

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 »