Strong hand, small pot - Part 1: Their fault

First of two articles of an anti-thesis against Daniel Skolovys recent strategy articles "strong hand, big pot, weak hand, small pot. 

For the following discussion are now ready to order, please read this article .

Ready? So: How many times have you heard the following sentence? "With Pocket Aces win one small pot or lose big"?

If your answer is "never", you wait it only occasionally. It's just a matter of time.

The same players represented like the maxim that you should play in a raised multiway pot all low cards, and for the following reason:

"Players raise and call raises with high cards, thus increasing the chance that you meet with small maps and hits the high cards."

Both statements contain a grain of truth. It is even more than a grain. I would say that as much truth there is that I think it is wrong to label them as "wrong".

But I will now try to explain where the logic error that stuck in what and how it could come to them.

The combo draw on the flop

There are only a few draws, the flop have more equity than a made hand. Combo draws are so powerful that sometimes they are even favorites. In a combo draw means a draw of more than 12 outs. These Draws are so strong that they should be sharp allude to almost every flop.

Examples of Combo Draws:

• A pair of open-ended straight draw (13 outs against an over-pair)
• A pair with flush draw (14 outs)
• Gutshot straight flush draw (12 outs)
• Straight draw and flush draw (15 outs)
• The rare and precious open-ended straight flush draw

In each of these examples helps us more than a quarter of the deck to a better hand than an over-pair. Even the worst combo draws - the gutshot straight flush draw - against the over-pair has a 50-50 chance! For us, this means that we are behind even against monsters only slightly. Against average hands, we are clearly a favorite. Such hands must be played hard. For a good player it means a lot of money.

Big hand, big pot, weak hand, small pot

It is really quite simple if you flop a strong hand, wants to increase the pot. If you hold a weak hand, however, is attempting to keep small pot to. 

Many players make the mistake of building with no more than a couple big pots, only to fold to nnoch but if the bottom is too big.

I will now develop an alternative strategy and show you how to control the pot, if you have a rather weak hand holds, and how to build, if you hold a very strong hand. Let's look at the following example:

The game is played $ 1 / $ 2, and Hertzian the effective stacks are at $ 200 We get A K  on the button. The two players in the blinds are solid, tight-aggressive player.It is folded around to us and we will increase to $ 8th The small blind is paid, the big blind folds.

The flop is K  3  5  . The opponent checks and we put $ 15 The Gegnr paid. the turn is on the 6  . The opponent checks and we put $ 35 The enemy paid.

The river is on the 6  . The enemy is $ 100

Great Poker Players - Phil Ivey

Phillip D. "Phil" Ivey (born February 1, 1976) is an American professional poker player who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour title and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables. After his runner up finish at the 2010 Aussie Millions 100K event Ivey is currently listed as first in the world among all-time money winners in tournament poker. Ivey is regarded by numerous poker observers and contemporaries as the best all-around player in the world today.

Great Poker Players - Jamie Gold

Jamie M. Gold (born August 25, 1969) is an American television producer, a talent agent, and poker player, based in Malibu, California. He is known for winning the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and currently divides his time between his activities as president of production for the entertainment company, Buzznation and poker competition, primarily major tournaments.

Online Poker Legislation: The Year in Review

It was a roller-coaster year politically for Internet poker in 2010. The first half of the year was like a slow climb of anticipation up the track, then came the steep drop in June, a new high in July, another plunge in September and a series of loops in the final month.

Poker players got off the ride a little dizzy, slightly confused and standing virtually in the same place they got on.

There is no doubt that Internet poker made more progress on Capitol Hill in 2010 than ever before. Yet, it could easily be argued that the industry is worse off now than when the year began.

Roberto Romanello won in Prague

The last of the EPT 2011 is over - and has found a worthy winner! Not so great for: Another poker raid in Switzerland, which can be differences of views.


On Saturday was the EPT Prague with an exciting final table and a worthy winner to end. The Welshman Roberto Romanello sat down by 562 players compared to celebrate his first victory at a major live tournament. Accordingly, his reaction after he heads up his last opponent, the Italian Emiliano Bono, beat: "I've been trying to do this for a very long time.This means everything to me". 

Tom Marchese is CardPlayer of the Year 2010

Before this year was Tom Marchese had not cashed in a single live tournament.  In January, he was third at the Borgata Winter Open, winning $ 190,000 and his first money gambling in a live tournament. In the course of the year proved Marchese that he is not a one hit wonder, and collected more CardPlayer Magazine's Player of the Year points anyone else.

In February Marchese won the first North American Poker Tour (NAPT) event, a $ 5,000 buy-in tournament at the Venetian in Las Vegas for $ 827,000. This win has catapulted him into an early lead. 

Rush Poker Strategy 1.

Rush Poker, the new version of Poker at Full Tilt, has caused a fuss about. From the smallest fish to high-stakes professional poker play now, every Rush, but how do I go to the thing at the best approach? For those who do not already know: Rush Poker is a new feature of Full Tilt Poker. It is the variant of choice for action-junkies, for as soon as you click on the Fold button, one is immediately put to a new table, which begins in the same second a new hand. There is no waiting time - after the fold to get new cards with no transition. There is even a quick-fold button, which allows you to fold his hand before it is ever on the series.

Rush Poker Strategy 2. - The obviously most important innovations

The biggest difference to the traditional poker game is that it instantly catapults with a fold to a new table. So there is no history with the opponents more. Each hand is synonymous with a new table and new enemies. You do not know who the fish are and who the pros. All opponents are blank slates. Since it is not possible to develop Reads by playing multiple hands against certain players, you have to behalndeln every opponent the same. Natpürlich that goes for everyone else at the table. If you get a read on the opponent, it also does not get read to you. So you have a lot less to worry about, to vary his game or his range, because you will rarely meet frequently with individual opponents.