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15 Betting Strategy Tips for Playing Poker |
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1. Bet hands that you feel are in
the lead for value. Don't let your opponents draw out a bigger hand without making them
pay more than they should have to see another card.
2. Only draw to hands in which you're getting proper odds. Calling a big bet into a small
pot with a drawing hand will be a losing practice long term.
3. Only slow-play very big hands and bet any vulnerable hand for value. Bet hands like
two-pair and trips if there's any possible draw hands out there on the board.
4. Try to control the betting with drawing hands by making small bets from early positions
so you get good pot odds on your draw; as long as no one raises the action after you.
5. Semi-bluff at pots with draw hands and middle pair when you're in a late position and
no action has occurred in the hand before it's your turn to act.
6. When bluffing at the river don't make an odd-looking bet that sends up a red flag to an
opponent. Make it look like a value bet and you'll have more success.
7. Avoid going all-in in a tournament if at all possible. Even with a monster hand you
don't want to be in a situation where your tournament life is at stake.
8. While in the blinds, try to re-steal the blinds from late position raises where the
action has been folded around to them. The raise in this situation will often be a blind
steal attempt.
9. Call reasonable pre-flop raises with any pocket pair if any other players enter the
hand. Try to hit a set for a big pot, or just get out of the way if you don't hit it and
there's action on the flop.
10. Limp into pots with medium strength hands in late and middle positions if the players
after you don't raise the action often.
11. Play big pocket pairs conservatively pre-flop in early positions and re-raise them for
value if anyone raises the action after you.
12. Make the biggest bet possible at a board that is showing the absolute nuts. Some
novice players will not know that it's an automatic chop and will periodically fold their
hand.
13. Checking the action in a hand that you made on the river, after semi-bluffing at it
twice on the flop and turn, will often induce a bet from an opponent who will put you on
something else.
14. Over-betting the river with the nut hand can sometimes induce a call from a curious
opponent who may think the bet is a bluff, designed to make them fold.
15. Against novice players make larger value bets. These bets will have a better chance of
being called as long as you don't make an all-in bet, which will scare away the novice.
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