Poker Poker Elements

The most obvious one is top-to-top kicking or top-to-top kicking.

 

For example, you have KsQs, raise into the pot, two people call, and the pot is 10BB. The flop comes out Kh8d7d, you bet 8BB, one person throws the card, and the other person raises to 32BB. Often in the case of small and medium stacks, you have already locked in this flop, and there is no need to consider an escape route. You can just happily put in the remaining chips.

 

But when stack deep, if your opponent is not a Maniac, you should make folding your hand the default option.

 

Why? Because your hands are transparent, you play as if you have top pair, which you do. You don't know what cards he has. He may have a made hand: AK top pair and a better kicker, maybe two pairs, or he may have a set; he may also have a draw: he is drawing a straight or a flush. If he has a made hand, you should fold, because your share value is often less than 20%; if he has a draw, you should obviously go all in, because you often have an advantage of more than 65%.

 

The trouble now is that you don’t know whether he has a made card or a drawing card. You assume that he has a made card and half a drawing card. In this case, your share value is still less than 50%, and what is even more unfavorable is that the hidden card rate ( Implied Pot Odds) were all on his side.

 

The golden rule of unlimited cash games is that when you are not locked in, have no position, and your opponent shows strength, you should fold at the earliest possible time instead of "following and seeing how the situation develops."

 

On a deep stacked table, you have AA/KK in early position. If the table is aggressive, you can hope that someone will always raise/reraise preflop, and you can still bet ten percent of your stack before the flop. One or more, so that you can have a flawless and profitable play; but if the whole table is tight and cunning, the AA/KK in the front position will be more difficult to grasp, and it will often become a hand that is not suitable for hitting the river all-in. , there is no formula to ensure profitability.

 

The fifth situation is super deep stack.

 

Super deep stacks mean that even if you (or a single opponent) bet on every street preflop, flop, turn, and river, it will still be difficult to push all your chips into the pot on the river.

 

To reach the river To go all-in, there must be a raise or reraise on at least one street. Generally, chips above 200BB can be called super-deep stacks. In ultra-deep stack battles, the position advantage can be fully utilized, which also means that those in the front position have a huge disadvantage. For example, in a super deep stack, a person in front raises to 8BB, and when everyone throws cards to the button, the button can take all pairs, all suited connectors, all suited one-gap and two-gap cards. all Axs and Kxs, and some non-suited connected cards, and a break card to call, the result may still be +EV, even if the button knows that the front position is very likely to be AA /KK, even the person in front is a master. Button’s profitable following range reaches an astonishing 40%.

 

The beauty of super deep stacks is that even if the guy in front knows that you're playing much looser than he is in back position, there's basically nothing he can do about it. The most important thing about preflop with ultra-deep stacks is not to choose which hands to play, but not to expose your hand strength when you only invest a small amount of chips (less than 5%). This requires that your playing style must be balanced. Many people have misunderstandings about balance. They think that a hand requires different playing methods to confuse the opponent.

 

For example, if I hold AA in the front position, I sometimes raise directly, and sometimes flat call and counter raise. The idea is good, but there are loopholes. The so-called balance refers to the balance of your playing style from the perspective of your opponent. Instead of thinking about how you're going to play a given hand, you're thinking about what your opponent thinks you are, given your playing style.

 

For example, you can flat-call and re-raise 100% of the time when holding AA in the front position, as long as you can ensure that you can do the same when holding other cards. For example, if you flatten and reraise all AA and 65s, this is a relatively balanced play.

 

Of course, you don’t have to be so rigid on the spot. Based on your judgment of the situation and your reading of your opponent, you can choose to squeeze reasonably when you let go and raise and many people are following, and use whatever cards you have to flat, follow, and reraise. .

 

The best strategy for ultra-deep stacks depends heavily on your opponent's style and there is no hard and fast formula. But there are several basic characteristics that can be followed:

 

1. The front position is super tight and you can play less than 10% of the cards; the back position is super loose and you can often play more than 40% of the cards in the button position if necessary.

 

2. Either nuts or nothing. The strength of such starting hands increases, such as 87s and 77; it is easy to form top pairs, but the strength of hands with little development potential decreases, such as ATo.

 

3. Any of your betting methods should have a balanced range before you get stuck; you can only expose your hand strength after you pot commited.

 

4. If a large bet makes you feel uncomfortable, think about the absolute value of the bet (call) rather than its proportion to the pot and remaining chips, then the stack depth is too deep for you , you should leave this game, even if this level is the level you usually play.

 

The positional advantage can be fully utilized when the stack is super deep, but how to use it? When should you scare the opponent away fiercely, when should you lure him into the game, and when should you give up? In the next chapter, I will continue to discuss another element of Texas hold'em poker with you: position.