New answers tagged texas-hold-em
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In all poker hands not only the highest card determinates the better hand, all cards do.
Best five card hand you can form is K:diamonds: J:diamonds: 8:diamonds: 6:diamonds: 2:diamonds: (which is the board).
The best hand your opponent can form however is K:diamonds: J:diamonds: T:diamonds: 9:diamonds: 8:diamonds:
So, while you both have the King and the ...
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Well, I have won a game or two at times without looking at my hand, but can't think of any particular case in a tournament, when I have seen that happen. In fact, why would anyone take that kind of risk while they are at a Tournament and big money is at stake.
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In the last few years Texas Holdem Poker has gained popularity, which is ,mainly because of it's exposure on television, internet and books. The popularity of the game has also surged because it's an amalgamation of simplicity and complexity and also this version of the game can be learnt pretty easily by one and all. After the game has been learnt one can ...
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There are plenty of variations of poker that are seen world over. I haven't heard of this variation that you are talking about, but it does make sense, even if it is something that was created by the locals. If you want to know in detail about all the other variations of poker you will find your answer HERE.
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During a tournament, when a player who joins as the big blind can play straight away. Of course, the rules keeps varying from one casino to the other, but this is the general norm. Whereas in normal circumstances, until the dealer button is passed the big blind cannot play. If your have more Queries about the rules of the game, you can finds the answers ...
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When you are the chip leader and are leading by a substantial margin, there is no doubt that you can pressurize the other players. I would suggest forcing other players to go all in or fold even if you have cards, which aren't really very great.For more strategies and tips you can go HERE.
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The main goal will be to maximise your gain, but like most obvious flopped nuts, the only way to win lot of chips with this hands is praying for someone to have a strong flush draw and wanting to go for it.
I would bet ~1/3 of the pot and see if someone got hooked. Check/Call is not really an option because anyone with a hand under a flush will not put ...
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Thinking about what to do when you have the nuts or near-nuts is a nice way to think through basic poker concepts. You can safely assume that all you want is for the most money possible to go into the pot.
Here there are two main questions to consider.
How strong is my opponent's range?
Here we need to know something about the preflop action. How much ...
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Two points might be helpful here:
You can strengthen your betting range while achieving another good thing.
If you move some of your weak hands into your checking-back range, then you both strengthen your continuation-betting range and you keep your opponent from reliably reading your hand for one pair when you check back.
It's not such a bad thing to ...
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Your "40% Strategy" label is a bit misleading. Often, aggressive strategies do well by making the opponent fold frequently. If you have a 40% hand, it's often very good to make your opponent fold!
I take it that the spirit of your question is to ask what makes such strategies work, when to employ them, and whether people often do employ them.
What makes ...
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If you flop a straight flush, and your aim isn't to get all in by the river, you're playing too tight.
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If You flop the straight flush, Your opponent can beat You with exactly one hand.
Since we saw 5 card, there are 47 other cards int the deck, or at your opponents.
The chance the villain(Lets say you are HU at this point) has the better straight flush is
1/(47*46/2) ~ 0.09%
So your oppenent will be better once in every 1000 time you flop the minimal ...
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My answer is no, but if they do, they will probably fall out before ITM.
Nowadays there are no such clean winning strategies. If You play that way, your opponents will note that after a couple dozen of hands. They will easily define your shove-range, and after that, You can play with face up cards too.
There could be cases, when playing this 40% strategy ...
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I am currently reading a book called Kill Phil and that teaches you to shove quite a wide range of hands preflop.
The reason it works is that people will only ever call with a decent hand as they are scared to risk their tournament life with anything but the nuts. So these shoves can get through uncontested a lot of the time as people don't want to take a ...
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I think the biggest mistake here is not raising pre-flop. With three people in the hand and AQ out of position I think this has to be a raise, relating to some comments that I read I would be raising here 100% of the time, I don't think playing AQ out of position is great (obviously you play it, it's a monster) and so narrowing the field would be the first ...
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