How Far Do You Go?
Although many reading hands may be similar in value, you cannot go as far with some of them – unless they quickly improve – as you can with others.
Those hands that you normally take further should be played with more strength earlier, since you are more likely to go to the end and get your money back.
Hands that you often fold early should be played in the opposite manner.
That is, with these hands, you want to put in as little money as possible.
Specifically, a hand like three small straight cards, particularly if the cards are suited, can be taken a lot further into the hand.
The same is true for two aces with a small card.
If you catch a bad card, you generally can still take another card off even if is raised, unless so the pot meone else’s hand develops strongly.
But don’t get married to these hands.
For example, if you have aces with a small card and someone who raised with a high card up now pairs his door card, you should fold.
You also should consider folding a small three straight that does not improve when someone who started with a small card up catches a suited baby on fourth street.
Introduction / General Strategy / How Far Do You Go? / Fourth Street / Check-Raising on Fourth and Fifth Streets / Fifth Street / Sixth Street / Seventh Street / Afterthought
