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 - A misplayed $10-20 hand?, A. Jalib - Well, this is why you want to bet the turn and then check the river.
It costs one bet either way, and the way you played it, you just let the big blind value bet his J3 or whatever he has...
- Abdul's Blind Defense Recommendations, A. Jalib - That sounds reasonable to me, especially against slightly earlier/tighter raises, where you can assume your opponent has either a pocket pair,
a bigger ace, or a king, which all roast you. Against a loose stealer
you may still wish to bet out...
- BB to call SB raise preflop with ?, A. Jalib - I haven't seen his report, but Caro's recommendations as explained
above seem fairly reasonable. However, considering that the raise is
probably coming from a strong ace through jack, I would suggest...
- Big blind defense and check-raising, A. Jalib - In tighter games, very often you wind up defending the big blind versus a raise, going heads-up to the flop. Once the flop comes, the question is...
- Calling raises cold, especially on the small blind in the 20-40 on PP, A. Jalib - Let me list a few reasons why their smooth calls *might* make sense.
In a raked game, you have a little incentive to not win the pot, so to
speak, but that doesn't explain the 60-120/80-160 games, which are...
- Defending the Big Blind, A. Jalib - Muck 72, 82, and T2, but play any two suited. Borderline hands would
be T5, 95, 84, 74, 63, 52...
- Do Holdem hands change value?, D. Kimberg - Okay, this is fair enough. although ed's original message described a
situation with five people calling ahead of you. presumably if you
don't raise you'll get the blinds in as well, which adds up to seven
opponents. possibly not a huge difference...
- Essay #1, Position relative to the raiser , A. Jalib - Hi, I'm back. How about an essay about once a week? Here's one
to start... Suppose we have two similar situations where we are considering defending the big blind in a board game like Hold'em...
- Food for thought regarding "domination", T. Weideman - In the discussion of what starting hands to play in holdem, the concept of "domination" has (rightfully, imo) taken its place as a leading consideration...
- HOLDEM THEORY: raising out of the blinds in loose games, D. Sklansky - the big blind I assume three things:
1. The other players are not ridiculously loose. They throw at least half their hands away. 2. There is a small chance that players will limp with a hand that dominates you (AA KK QQ JJ AK AQ AJ...
- Hold'em Preflop Strategy According to Abdul - Due to the effect of community cards, hold'em is a game of "domination," a term coined by Roy Hashimoto...
- Hold'em strategy question, D. Billings - This course has been labeled incorrectly. The course content applies
mostly to Poker 101 -- Playing in a Loose and Passive game. The more
advanced course should show that far fewer starting hands are
comfortably profitable when playing against lunatics...
- How to deal with aggressive pot-stealers?, M. Hall - The most common steals are: 1) Late position opening raise preflop. 2) Bet in late position on the flop when no one else bet, or in any position if there is a pair on the board....
- K10o vs Q10o, T. Perry - The real answer is this: these are not great UTG hands due to the unknown
possibility of a raise. The main problem is whether or not they can win unimproved against the raiser...
- Late position - how low should you go ? , I. Fekali - As I value the advice of fellow rgp-ers, I'd like to see some comments on the following: How low should you go with unsuited connectors on the button where there are five or more (fish) limpers in the pot? S&M recommend playing...
- Low Limit Texas Hold’em, A. Jalib - After a bunch of loose limpers you can play Q6s. Playing Q6s in early
position would be unwise, since you could not be sure it would not be
raised (and maybe reraised) by AQ, KK, and whatnot...
- Preflop Raising Frequency, B. Tanenbaum - First, I agree that it matters greatly what the character of the game is. I
just returned from a week at the Bellagio, where I played 50 hours of 30-60 in a very tight, fairly tough field. In that game I open-raised in early
position with...
- Small Blind defense vs quality opponents, T. Weideman - I'll make some general statements that I will not elaborate on beyond what I
say here: 1. One of the biggest reasons that having position is advantageous is that it allows you to get more value from mediocre-decent hands by going into "make sure one bet gets in the pot" mode...
- Some blinds questions, A. Jalib - 76s is on par with KQ for blind defense versus a lone middle raiser.
That is, it's definitely playable, but towards the low end of playable hands. 76s has the advantages of extra draw outs...
- Some views on Paradise Poker, A.Jalib - My views are similar to Ed Hill's, though not the same. Here is an
unfortunately long-winded essay I wrote on loose games. The intended
audience was myself, just to clarify my thinking...
- Strategy Restrictions and Balancing, A. Jalib - I've been using Texas Turbo hold'em to examine preflop strategies that disguise my holdings without sacrificing much expected value...
- THEORY/HOLDEM: S&M on attacking blinds , A. Jalib - In Hold'em for Advanced Players, Sklansky and Malmuth write: "In fact, sinec you do not have position over the big blind, you should call rather than raise with most of the hands you will be playing heads up against...
- When to 3 bet in holdem, A. Jalib - If he meant an EARLY TIGHT preflop raiser, then that can be true. Versus a typical middle or late raise, you would normally want to reraise to isolate. For one thing, you will greatly reduce the risk of making a bad laydown if you make it heads up instead of multiway...
- Why bother raising in early position? , A. Jalib - I've done a fair bit of simulations and mathematical studies on preflop strategies and the concept of "hand balancing" - balancing the strengths of hands you can have in different situations...
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