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Made Hands, Monsters to Mice (Page 1 of 3)
After the flop, much of the strength of your hand depends on the character of the flop. Obviously, if you start with a pair, and make trips, a full house or four of a kind, you have a big hand, these are the Monsters. What is not so obvious is how the strength of your hand changes when you hit a fair hand, but get a flop that may have helped one, or more, of your opponents.
In the rare situation where you have a monster, hope that someone either bets, or catches a card on the turn so they can call your bet. You have an almost unbeatable hand, and the other players are going to be scared off by the flop. Your goal in this situation should be to keep as many players around as possible, and to get as much money in the pot as possible.
With your biggest hands, you may want to slow play and entice someone else into betting. But, in those rare cases when you have the best hand and other players are betting and rising, join in and help to build the pot. After all, it is almost certainly going to be yours. If the board later pairs, and there us any betting, you may be facing a full house.
Two Pair
Flopping top 2 pair when you have 2 different cards in your hand, is a very strong hand. Top and bottom pair is also a very strong hand. Since you will usually be playing premium cards, top 2 pair will often give someone else a straight draw, and/or a flush draw.
As a result, you should not slow play these hands. Your goal is to force players out of the hand, and charge those that stay. While this hand warrants raises and re-raises, lots of action could mean they have a set. If so, or a straight or flush is possible, you could be drawing to only 4 outs.
If the pot has already gotten large, you should call it down. If the pot is not large, or you are positive that the other player has you beaten, with 4 outs you need pot odds of 11:1 to make the call profitable.
When you have 2 pair, and 1 is on the board, your hand is not as strong as the split 2 pair. Another player may already have trips, or a higher 2 pair. If a card higher than your pair hits the board, it could make someone a higher 2 pair. There could also be other draws out that may beat your 2 pair.
This is another situation to play aggressively, to chase players out, win the pot immediately, or at least make it expensive for players to draw. If you are raised, or check raised, on the turn, you may be up against trips. But, by now, the pot has gotten big. You may want to back off and call, but you shouldnt fold unless you are sure you are beaten, or you are facing 3 bets cold.
Top Pair
Top pair, good kicker is a very strong hand. This is 1 reason to treat Big Slick, Ace and King, as a strong hand. With a flop of King, Eight, Three, and 3 different suits you have an excellent hand. The only card higher than the flop pairs your Ace, giving you top 2 pair. There are no flush or straight draws, so you are only worried about Ace, Ace, King, King, or a pair of Eights or Threes in the hole.
Online Bingo Behaviour
Bingo is not like many of the games that are played online and all of the different online bingo halls have a strong sense of community. The chat boxes are often full of people behaving and chatting away to each other and there is no animosity between players. Everyone seems to pretty much get a long and this is helped by the fact that most chat rooms have a chat moderator in them who will quickly deal with someone who is ruining the fun for everyone else.
So its important when you play that you fit in and don’t cause problems or do something that might not be seen as acceptable. Swearing is often a big no no when it comes to the bingo chat boxes. If you narrowly miss out on a win then you are more likely to find people being philosophical about it and congratulating the actual winner than swearing their head off in the chat box and moaning about not being the winner. Its important that you can be a good loser as well as a good winner.
Being a good loser means that when someone else wins you should congratulate them and be happy for their success. People will often type things like WP which means well played or WD which means well done in the chat if someone they know has taken down the jackpot. Thats fine and people will be pleased for you if you are pleased for them when they win. Remember that and you should have no problems making a few friends pretty quickly. When you lose as mentioned before don’t swear and try your very best not to be bitter about it!
Often being a good winner is just as important as being a good loser. No one likes a show off and especially not when there is money involved. If you do happen to get lucky and win the game then do so with grace and dignity. Try not to celebrate to much in the chat box and makes others jealous and at the same time make sure you are taking note of peoples congratulations for you and say thank you. Playing in this manner helps build a really friendly atmosphere between players and is also a pretty good ice breaker.
If your not up to date with you bingo lingo then you should take a little while to do some research and find out what each thing means. There are long lists freely available on various bingo websites so you can take a look at one of these and it might not be a bad idea to print it out so that you can refer back to it when playing if someone types something you are not familiar with. Don’t worry after a while you will get used to it and will more than likely start to use some of the terms yourself, just stick with it for a while and it will come. If you follow all the instructions above then you should have no problem what so ever getting along with everyone in the bingo chat box.