Finding the Right Table
If you mostly play tournament poker, then you won’t have much say in who you play against. Everyone starts playing at the same time, and you can’t leave until you either win or bust out. Cash games, on the other hand, are a bit different. Since they don’t have a predefined beginning or end, players can come and go as they please. You can always get up and find a new table. In this article, we’re going to talk about finding the right table for you. Ultimately, it comes down to
Playing Marginal Hands
There’s a lot of hands in between pocket aces and 72o. Perhaps you’re holding KTs and the flop brings AK8, giving you middle pair. Or, maybe you even have high pair, but there’s four to a straight on board. How do you play these marginal hands? While there’s rarely a single right or wrong answer in this complex game, there are some general strategies that we can employ in these tough spots. We’re never going to have perfect information, but we can still make the best decision
How to Use Implied Odds
Every time we call a bet, we always want a positive expected value. In the long run, our call should win more chips than it loses. The first way that we approach this problem is with pot-odds. By combining this concept with equity, we can see whether or not a call is immediately profitable. For example, a flush draw on the turn has a 1 in 4 chance to hit on the river, giving us 25% equity. We then need 4-1 pot-odds to justify the call. So, if there’s 40 chips in the pot, then
