General Strategy
1. What is a reasonable strategy to pursue ?
Ans : When the pot is still small in the early rounds, you should get out any time your hand does not look as though it is the best for one way or the other.
2. What if you don’t do this ?
Ans : You may get trapped for a bigger bet and several raises on a later round.
3. What is the exception ?
Ans : When you have a two-way hand, it is usually worth chasing slightly better one-way hands.
4. What if no one catches anything that appears to make his poker hand ?
Ans : In this case, you may want to go a little further.
5. When else can you go a little further ?
Ans : When you are against players who tend not to jam unless they make cinches.
6. What about against more aggressive players who do jam a lot ?
Ans : You need to be careful about getting too involved.
7. How should you play when you hold a good hand ?
Ans : You should be a player who frequently will jam.
8. What will this do for you ?
Ans : It will make most of your opponents become cautious when playing against you, plays you will be able to control the size of the pot and how you want to play your hand.
9. What is an important skill in this game ?
Ans : The ability to size up what it will cost to see a hand through.
10. Why is this skill so important ?
Ans : Because instead of paying two or three bets to go to the river, as you would in most other games, it can easily end up costing you seven to ten bets.
11. Knowing whether someone plays tight or loose is not enough. Who else do you need to know ?
Ans : How fast he plays and how often he jams the pots.
12. What type of hands do you want to play against those online poker players who do play very fast ?
Ans : Two-way hands, hands that are well-disguised, and the bigger hands.
13. What about against players who are more passive ?
Ans : You can play a few additional hands.
14. What happens to one-way hands when playing heads up ?
Ans : They lose value.
15. If you are not a big favorite to win your half of the pot, what should you do ?
Ans : Throw your hand away, unless the pot is large.
Introduction / Starting hands / Three of a Kind Wired / Disguising Your Hand / Ante Stealing / Getting Reraised on a Semi-Steal / When an Ace Raises / When the Bring-In Raises / General Strategy / How Far Do You Go? / Fourth Street / Check-Raising on Fourth and Fifth Streets / Fifth Street / Sixth Street / Seventh Street / Position / Playing the High Hands / Bluffing / Slow-Playing / Knowing Your Opponents / Raising Aggressively / The Toughest Decision of All / Staying to the End / Pairing the Door Card / Keeping Track of the Cards / Scare Cards / An Expert Play / Another Good Play / Reading Hands / Psychology / Afterthought
