Protecting your hand is a well-known poker concept. If you think you likely have the best hand at the moment, you bet to force your opponents either to fold or to pay to draw out. In no-limit hold’em, however, many players tend to overprotect their hands. Here’s a simple example. When Overprotecting Your Hand|1000|3.95|USD|| I [...]
Tags: card player, no-limit-holdem, poker, protecting-your-hand, risk-versus-rewardNo doubt you’ve heard from many a person that the key to poker is never to call. Raise or fold. If you can’t raise, throw it away. It’s perhaps useful advice for a casual player who hasn’t yet seen how powerful aggression can be. But I think it’s also very limiting Resisting The Raising Reflex [...]
Tags: aggression, calling, no-limit-holdem, playing position, poker, protecting-your-handNo doubt you’ve heard from many a person that the key to poker is never to call. Raise or fold. If you can’t raise, throw it away. It’s perhaps useful advice for a casual player who hasn’t yet seen how powerful aggression can be. But I think it’s also very limiting Q&A #85: Resisting the [...]
Tags: aggression, no-limit-holdem, poker, protecting-your-hand, raise-or-fold, spr, top-pairI’ve been poking through the 2+2 archives and have decided to republish some of my favorite posts for those who don’t read 2+2 (or those who didn’t read 2+2 several years ago). Most limit Why You Guys Aren’t Crushing These Microlimit Games|237|3.95|USD|| hold’em players go through a series of stages as they learn. They start [...]
Tags: aggression, big-pots, fit-or-fold, limit-holdem, microlimit, poker, protecting-your-hand, two-plus-two, twoplustwoWith Christmas soon approaching, I figured it was time to add some Christmas spice to my little blog. So to comfort and relax you as you Q&A #39: Should a Scary Turn Card Freeze You?|123|3.95|USD|| read about limit hold ‘em, I present a Santa Claus garden gnome. Richard asks, I thought I would bring up [...]
Tags: limit-holdem, marty-bergen, online-poker, poker, protecting-your-hand, scare-card, small-stakes-holdem, sshe, two-plus-two, twoplustwosetosevens asks, Hi Ed.� What a great site. I’ve got a hand here that a friend of mine played online the other night and we had a bit of a disagreement about it.� I was fairly confident about what the best play was, but it differed from how he played Q&A #21: Protecting Top Pair [...]
Tags: big-pot, cutoff, limit-holdem, microlimits, poker, protecting-your-hand, small-pot, small-stakes-holdem, sshe, top-pairLast month I suggested people give 6-max limit hold ‘em a try. For the good player, it’s more profitable, and it will help you develop poker skills you may have been neglecting at the full tables. I should have included a caveat about higher variance, so I will do that Beating the Bettor in 6-Max [...]
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