Hey Mates
Now that I am kind caught up with my new website www.pokermatesnz.com, I'd loke to talk about starting hands.
Lets start with the monster hand (A,A) Bulletts / Rockets. My advice about this hand is to almost never SLOW PLAY this hand! Why would you slow play a monster hand like this? Yeah, sure it works on TV but they dont show you the 40% of the time that this hand loses! I will only slow play this hand when I am in the final 3 players of my sitngo!
Your intention with this hand is all in, thats not to say that I would go all in off the bat but I sure would throw out a good 10 times the Big Blind as a starting raise. I want to narrow down the field to only 1 or 2 callers. If everyone folds? So what! I still won! I have seen bullets lose to a pocket pair of 2's many many times. I mean you have the highest starting hand in the book and your gonna try and play cute! Go ahead but I won't! I am in the game to win not to be cute!
When I am playing with players that I know, I will sometimes slow play this hand depending on my position and my chip stack. I trap players quite often but I do not need a monster like this hand in order to trap players. My main objective is to make it to the money first then I play the game!
So, in my book (A,A) is an all in hand while trying to get someone to call me, Do not lose with this hand! and do not be afraid to throw it out the window if you decide to slow play it and get caught. while this hand is a monster it still loses 40% of the time- So just remember that mates.
Tomorrow we will talk more on this! Cheers mates........................Masala
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
A few tips on Sitngos (continued)
Hey Mates,
Continuing from my last post, I actually placed 2nd! When I left off we were down the final 3 players, So I have now made the money! WOOOO HOOOO! So now I actually start playing the game. When I am in the money I turn into an actual Poker Beast, Kick it up a gear and take advantage of every good hand you receive and play position, position, position!
When there are only 3 players left and one of the players folds, creating a Heads up situation, always raise the pot (2-3 times) the big blind! this is assuming of course that you actually are choosing to play the hand! If in doubt at all? (FOLD) Never let your opponent see a flop for free, always raise the pot unless you are trying to trap your opponent!(in my book that is the only time you should simply call the bet) You have to force the decision to play the hand onto your opponent, Be extremely aggressive or don't play!
Like I said in the previous post there is not that much of a payout difference between 2nd and 3rd place. But a big difference in payout for Winning! Always try to create a heads up situation in any poker hand you play because then your odds are 50/50!
OK mates, I'm not really finished on this subject and I would like to get more into the strategy of playing individual hands, and as soon as I finish my new website page I will be able to add to this Blog Daily! So until next time mates, Don't forget to show them NUTS!
Masala
Continuing from my last post, I actually placed 2nd! When I left off we were down the final 3 players, So I have now made the money! WOOOO HOOOO! So now I actually start playing the game. When I am in the money I turn into an actual Poker Beast, Kick it up a gear and take advantage of every good hand you receive and play position, position, position!
When there are only 3 players left and one of the players folds, creating a Heads up situation, always raise the pot (2-3 times) the big blind! this is assuming of course that you actually are choosing to play the hand! If in doubt at all? (FOLD) Never let your opponent see a flop for free, always raise the pot unless you are trying to trap your opponent!(in my book that is the only time you should simply call the bet) You have to force the decision to play the hand onto your opponent, Be extremely aggressive or don't play!
Like I said in the previous post there is not that much of a payout difference between 2nd and 3rd place. But a big difference in payout for Winning! Always try to create a heads up situation in any poker hand you play because then your odds are 50/50!
OK mates, I'm not really finished on this subject and I would like to get more into the strategy of playing individual hands, and as soon as I finish my new website page I will be able to add to this Blog Daily! So until next time mates, Don't forget to show them NUTS!
Masala
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