Poker Poker Elements

Suppose you have Qh Jh , no one raises in the pot, and the flop comes on Qs 7h 4c . Because there is no raise in the pot, even if you are facing three or four people, you have reason to believe that you are probably holding the best hand at the moment.

 

But at the same time, your hand is also pretty vulnerable. Any over card A/K has three winning cards (outs), and any middle pair (such as 8d 7s ) has 5 winning cards. If it is a straight like 6d 5s If you draw sub-draw cards, there are 8 winning cards.

 

If there are more than 2 of the above combinations among different opponents, your winning rate is not even 50%, but facing any single opponent mentioned above, your winning rate will be Significant advantages.

 

Obviously you should be trying to drive away most of your opponents in most situations, but if you encounter strong resistance, there is a good chance that your hand is no longer the best.

 

If you are in an early position, such as the big blind, and three or four people flat call behind you, your first reaction is to place a bet, someone behind you raises, and then someone reraises.

 

It is now obvious that not only is your hand suboptimal, but it is likely to be severely dominated by your opponent, and you'd better fold. You might say, then if I check the card, I can get the same information. If I fold the card at that time, doesn't it mean I don't have to pay the price? Don’t forget that when you have to act, you don’t know that your opponent has a strong hand.

 

If you check, you have to take another risk: for example, your three opponents holding AK, 79, and 56 all check. , enjoy a free card. Now you see, you are always at risk when someone is moving behind you, you are crossing the river by feeling your way around.

 

If you were on the button, the same Qh Jh, the same Qs 7h 4c board, the same three or four opponents, you would be in a much better position.

 

If all your opponents check, you bet and feel confident; if they bet and raise, you fold without losing extra money; if there is only one bet, you study your opponent's style and combine His betting action determines whether you call or fold.

 

Some people will say, you put it simply. If someone holds a set of super powerful cards and sets a trap just for you to fall into it, aren't you asking for death? What I want to say is that traps are certainly possible, but the possibility is relatively low, at least much lower than the chance of falling into a trap when you are out of position. There are two reasons for this: First, entering a hand The more people there are, the less likely it is to give free cards, which means everyone plays more by the book.

 

There are four or five people in this hand. Even if the current nut card of QQ is afraid of someone using 56 to draw a straight, he will also build the pot himself, so he is more likely to bet instead of taking the risk of checking and raising. Second, although No Limit Texas Hold'em is a game that can be slow-played and bluffed, its own characteristics determine that in most cases you need to play a hand of cards straightforwardly.

 

That is, if you believe you have a good hand, you have to bet/raise, and if you believe your hand is not good enough, you have to check/fold. If you play slowly and bluff too much, you may be playing "reverse poker," and it is impossible to make a profit playing reverse poker. Based on these two points, you don’t have to worry too much about falling into other people’s traps.

 

The information obtained when you are in position is often more valuable.

 

For example, if you are on the button, and a total of 5 people including you enter the pot, after the flop comes out, the first person (not the person who raised before the flop) places a bet. Pot size. At this point you can basically be sure that he has a very good hand.

 

As we said before, because the person in front of him had no position, he took great risks whether he bet or checked. Now that he is taking such a big risk to bet, it can be seen that he is either quite confident about the cards, or has a good draw and a tight plan to win this pot.

 

In any case, the judgment "he has the cards" is almost certain. Now turn it around, your first reaction is to check, and the three people behind you also check.

 

When they get to the button, he bets the size of the pot. Was he bluffing when he saw the opportunity to bluff, or did he really have a hand? This is more difficult to judge.

 

Moreover, even if you judge that he is probably bluffing, you dare not easily challenge him because you are afraid that someone among the other three people is trapping you.

 

Moreover, you have to act first in the remaining two streets, and the opponent with the button has the advantage of "less The privilege of making mistakes.

 

The "mid-game" advantage of position: When betting on the middle streets, the better the position, the lowest cost of obtaining information, and the more valuable the information obtained.