Practicing Pot Control

When practicing pot control, you must take into consideration:

Strength of your hand vs. the range of your opponent’s hand: This is more of a decision call based on past experience, reads on the opponent, texture of the board and betting patterns. There is a lot to consider when trying to guess the strength of your hand vs. the range of the opponent.
Stack sizes: As a general rule the range of hands with which you are willing to showdown with all the chips in the middle should be wider with a 25BB stack than with a 100BB stack. This means you should be much more disposed to put a 25BB stack all in with top pair top kicker (TPTK) than you would with a 100BB stack.
Style of the opponent: If you have TPTK against a chaser (who doesn’t look at odds to call), you will want to bet the hand very aggressively and let him pay you off. If you have top pair top kicker against an aggressive player who has a wide range that you can’t read, you will want to practice pot control to keep the pot small. If you have top pair against a calling station, you will be frequently on the right place to make bigger bets on the flop, turn and river. With top pair against a rock (Very tight player) you still usually want to avoid a situation where you end up with all of your chips in the middle of the table.

Regards

Pot Control 2

Hi Again,

Forgot to mention... Use pot control only when the board is dry. It would be unwise to not protect your hand. So if your hand is exposed to draws you must continue aggressive play. Do not allow draws to get in cheap!
There is no need to exercise pot control all the time.

Regards

Pot Control

Hi,

Pot control is the art of manipulating the size of the pot based on the relative strength of your hand. “Relative strength of your hand” refers to how strong your hand is in comparison to the likely range of hands of your opponent.
Pot control is one of the most important skills for no-limit players to have profit. By keeping the pot the appropriate size, it becomes much easier to avoid mistakes. Pot control both keeps you out of trouble and gets as much value for your hand as possible.


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Reload

When playing NL Holdem, reload if your tables stack drops below 75% of the table maximum. This is because you will have the short stack attitude and get bullied by other players. You may find people putting you all-in more often pre flop, forcing you to gamble more. Also you cant maximize your first-rate all-ins, costing you money in the long run. Just imagine you have 50% of the table maximum and hit the nuts. Think how much you will loose (not win) for not having your full stack.....

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PS: If you are managing a short stack strategy, please ignore this advice.


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Slowplaying Big Hands

Hi Guys,

Slowplay is a term for playing a strong hand passively to keep the opposition in the game, to give the impression of a weaker hand and give the opportunity to your opponents to improve their hand giving them false hopes of winning. However when you slowplay then you risk giving an opponent the chance to catch up and overtake you.
If the board is showing “dangerous” cards for your opponent. For example three cards to a ♦ flush, and you have hit the diamonds flush, then it may be better to slowplay as your opponents will be scared off quite rapidly. If you have the nut flush (an Ace♦ on your hole cards or a K♦ with the Ace♦ on the board) it may be the right thing to give a free card hoping that your opponent is holding one card (like a Q♦) to the flush and catches up a bit on the next card.
On the contrary, if the board is showing frightening cards for you - then take the pot down there (don’t wait to end this hand as another “bad beat story”). So if there is two cards to a flush or a straight chance which would beat your good hand, then make your opponents pay to see another card and make them play against the odds if they are on a draw.
Be carefull slowplaying versus multiple players. If there is more than one opponent in the pot with you, try to restrict the field down with a bet. With more than one opponent in the pot there is more chance one of them will catch up.

Best Regards

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Folding

For a new Poker player it will always be tempting to call even when he has mediocre hands. This is because some people view folding as surrendering. If a poker player has this view, then he should immediately change it, before he can even hope in winning a poker game. Folding should be viewed as a business move.

For example:

You sit on a 0.05/0.10$ NL table with 10$ and wait for the BB.
First hand someone raises to 0.30 and you don’t fold your K6 off.
Second hand and you complete the SB with your 43 suited.
Third hand and you raise 0.30 from the button with Q7 off.
Let’s imagine you don't hit anything special on these 3 flops and have to fold.
Fourth hand you hit a full house while your opponent makes a flush. Probably, all you chips (money) will go to the middle and you will get called. So, you could have won more 0,55$ on this hand.(0,7 (that you spent on the previous 3 hands) - 0,15$(BB+SB)= 0,55$) and you didn't because you wasted them with previous trash hands. 0,55$ may seem peanuts but it is 5,5 BBs !

Folding is a tactical action which keeps our chips (or money) alive to fight for the next battle (hand). This next battle, if the cards are right, can be the winning hand, and we will win more because we saved our stack for these moments. Folding is a part of the control and discipline we must have in poker.

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