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Table Observation

January 15, 2019   Game guide   No comments

Most individuals have no beginning preflop Texas Hold’em strategy; they would sit at a poker table trying to play quickly as possible without being aware of their surroundings and whom they’re playing with.

This is a common mistake most poker players make. Before jumping into the action and start betting like maniac with your pockets, consider the following preflop strategy.

Number of Players:

Is your table a full or shorthanded (Six players or less) game? With a full table of nine or ten players, it’s likely someone’s holding a strong hand or overcards (AA, KK, AK, AQ, etc) that can easily beat your hand.

Also, the chances of someone else’s hole cards fitting the flop will be much better. You should take this into consideration, and play your hand as cautious as possible. But before getting into the action consider the next important point.

Type of Opponents:

As explained in Lesson Two of identifying your opponents, the most crucial information you can obtain is how your opponents play and adjust to their style of play. Usually, I would sit at a table and not play for the first five minutes; I let the button and blinds pass me once before I start jumping in, unless I pick up a nice hand like AA, KK, AQ, etc.

After identifying who are weak and strong opponents, I then start picking up pots off the weak players. But before I start hammering with bets and take those pots, I like to consider the next important point.

Your position:

Position is very important, as I will elaborate in lesson four. Players in late position or last to act (preferably on the dealer button) have a great advantage than those acting ahead.

Players acting last can observe the action taking place before them and also have the ability to influence the size of the pot. At times, your position may be more valuable than the cards you hold.

Stack Size:

A player with a large stack dominates his opponents and can scare or drive opponents out of the pot and fold, giving them the fear of being eliminated. On the other hand, watch out for players with short stacks. If they are still in a pot, they’re usually all in at some point or another

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Splitting Wins In Texas Holdem – #1 Reason For Splitting Holdem Wins

December 2, 2018   Game skill   No comments

No one likes it, but sometimes splitting wins in Texas Holdem actually happens, and this is completely within in the rules. In very rare situations you will have to split a win. Read on to find out the 1 reason.

Splitting wins in Texas Holdem isn’t an often occurrence but it can actually happen. The first time this happened to me I couldn’t believe it. I wanted all the pot for myself! Wouldn’t you? All that hard work I put in to win the pot and here I am splitting my win with a friend of a friend of a friend.

At the end of a round of poker, you will have to split the pot with another person if you both have exactly the same hand. This can happen due to a variety of causes, all of them quite uncommon. Read on for the most probable reason that you will no doubt run into sooner or later.

Splitting Wins In Texas Holdem – Your Both Have The Same Hole Card And Are Using The Same Community Cards

Splitting your wins in Texas Holdem happens more more often for this reason, but still not very usually. Say for instance you both get a K-J. Then the board drops a K-J and you both have a two pair. In the end you both have a two pair and the highest kicker on the board, so you both have the same hand and the pot is split. Other times, running with this example again, the two last kings will drop on the board and you both have a trips. In even rarer cases the second card (the J in this example) doesn’t have to be the same just as long as there are two cards on the board that are higher. So the two players kickers are community cards and hence the same. Because the two hands are the same the players end up splitting their wins.

So as you can see, splitting wins in Texas Holdem does happen. If you play enough Texas Holdem inevitably you will run into a situation where the rules dictate that splitting the pot is the final answer. Remember, anytime that two players have exactly the same hand they will have to split the pot. It doesn’t matter if some or all of the cards are community cards. But don’t get too caught up on it, as a win is a win, and any amount of chips is better then nothing.

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