Poker – Jamming The Pot
This is the counterpart of the example of slow-playing given above. Sometimes, when you hold the nut hand, you just need to jam the pot on fourth street, in order to make the pot as big as it possibly...
View ArticlePoker – Folding Your Hand
When you're involved in a big multiway pot and there's been a lot of raising on the flop, watch out for indications that the drawing hands have hit on fourth street. Suppose you have 6-6 and the flop...
View ArticlePlaying Poker The Marginal Play Hands On The River
In the discussion of beginners' strategy for the top ten hands on the river (Chapter 3), I advocated making a lot of calls on the river, because of the large size of the pots with the top ten hands. In...
View ArticleLimit Holdem Poker – Advanced Strategy
Take note: because the concepts presented in this chapter are both subtle and complex, the beginning or intermediate player really shouldn't race right out to try them in serious games. Successful...
View ArticlePoker – Playing Suited Connectors
Now that we're contemplating advanced play, we'll add suited connectors to the mix of hands that you'll sometimes play before the flop. Notice that I said "sometimes." There is very little advice in...
View ArticleThree Limit Hold Em Poker Situations Appropriate For Playing Suited Connectors
Situation 1: One situation conducive to playing these hands is when someone has raised and two or three players have already called in front of me. Here I'm investing two bets with at least three other...
View ArticleThree Limit Hold Em Poker Situations Appropriate For Playing Suited...
Situation 2: The second favorable situation arises when I have suited connectors in the blinds, because I get in for a discount. In other words, calling two bets in the big blind amounts to calling...
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