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Advanced Texas Holdem Tips – Advanced Position Plays
Want to learn some advanced Texas Holdem Tips? This article is going to discuss advanced positions plays and how to make the most money at the poker table.
Advanced Texas Holdem Tips For Positional Plays
Plays based on position are an important factor into any successful Texas Holdem strategy. The fact is, you can’t do the same things from a blind compared to mid positions compared to being on the button. Any strategy that gives a stock standard ‘if you get dealt this card bet this amount’ just won’t cut it for advanced play.
Realise this first most crucial point:
Money travels clockwise from the small blind right around to the button.
To explain this in other words. It is easier to make money, i.e. win pots, if you are on the button. It gets slightly hard the more you move counter-clockwise, from late positions, to mid positions, to early positions, to blind positions. So by the time you’ve gotten to early and blind positions it is much much harder to win money.
This is simply because of the fact that at each betting round the players that must bet first have a disadvantage because they haven’t seen how the other players have bet. They have no idea how the other players are doing post flop, turn, river, etc.
Likewise, the blinds have a negative expectation. This means that overall, you should expect that you will lose money when you are in the blinds. Yes, lose money. And this money should be recouped, and then some, when you are in later positions.
Some ways you can take advantage of being in a later position are:
– If everyone checks you can raise with poorer cards – You can steal blinds easily without having to deal with the unknown of who is contesting the pot – If a raise is made and everyone else folds you can choose to take a heads up – You can reraise over players to force them in or out of a pot – After the flop you can make your move depending on how you feel the other players did – You have the options of checking/calling through draws without risking being reraised – You know if you can bluff or fake a hand on a turn and guess how your opponents will react – You have all the power at a showdown
There are many more advanced Texas Holdem tips however this information should be enough to open up your mind to the possibilities of utilising a later table position to increase your poker winnings.