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Make use of your poker intuition
As you begin learning and more and more about poker, your intuition begins to sharpen. You become better at pinpointing opponent hand ranges, or in some cases even putting them on an exact hand. Every pot your opponent plays or doesn’t play gives you more information as to their way of playing poker. Each bet he makes reveals that much information for you to go off of. But as your intuition sharpens, you need to remember to listen to it.
Poker Home Games – Cash Game Strategy
Truth be told I haven’t seen as many poker home games that operate under regular old cash game rules (minus the rake of course, as that would be illegal) but they do happen. The first thing I want you to realize though is this won’t be like your usual cash game at your favorite card room, casino or online poker site. When you’re playing in a licensed card room you have the option to stand up and walk away whenever you’re up. When you’re playing amongst your friends at a home game, well, you’re supposed to be playing for fun first and winning their cash second so there are some different rules and expectations for you.
Mastering Loose Aggressive Poker Play
Yesterday I hinted at loose aggressive poker players having a healthy relationship with money. Your first step in becoming a loose aggressive poker player is being able to let go of your cash. Once you deposit, put it on the table, whatever your cash is gone. All you have are chips, and your goal is to accumulate more chips through deception, aggression, reading your opponents, and becoming the table aggressor.
Poker Home Game Strategies
Well as you know there are different payouts, buyins, and a variety of characters at poker home games so covering a blanket strategy is very difficult to do. I’m going to try to break it up in different groups to give you a decent strategy plan. Let me say though that if it’s a group of friends playing together, have fun first, then play to win for bragging rights. Otherwise, it’s not a fun game and no one will want you back.
Selecting the right table for your game
Table selection is vital to your poker success. If you sit down at the wrong table you’ll drain your stack, if you select the right table, your bankroll will increase. Now playing poker just for the sake of playing poker is a very unwise decision. Being that online poker allows you to look at the average pot you can make a selection of which table you would prefer to sit at without even scouting the table.
Using opponents against eachother for reads
This is an amazingly powerful strategy against opponents who are either shortstacked or have a ton of chips. The shortstack is looking to double up and the guy with a ton of chips is looking to add to his stack. If these two wind up in a hand together, there’s bound to be fireworks. Let’s say you’re holding something like Ace ten offsuit and you have a raise followed by a re-raise. You can fold this down if the chip stacks of these two players matches the description above.
Finding the right table for your playing style
I touched on this recently in another post, and now I feel its time to elaborate more on the subject matter. When selecting a table you have several options – cost – number of players – how much you want to buy in for – what the average pot size is – number of players per flop – etc. Now, I’ve talked about all these factors separately before but now I’m going to touch on my current playing style and where I feel most comfortable.
More on Investment Odds
You may have heard something in the past about implied odds, reverse odds, or “other” terms which all fall under the term investment odds. Investment odds has to do with the amount of chips you believe you can win by the end of the hand. Instead of thinking in terms of pot odds for the next card, you’re predicting how the entire hand will play out. If you’re on a straight or flush draw and hit how much will you win compared to how much you’ll risk. There’s an online calculator for investment odds featured on this website.
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