To win your rival poker player’s entire money is your goal in a no-limit poker game. It is difficult to flop a hand big enough that you are hoping to back it with your whole stack. Think positively when you are lucky enough to do so. To play big pots, you need big hands.
You should always keep an eye on the rival poker player’s entire stack. To get doubled up, play the hand the best way. When you have three jacks And you become sure of winning something with them is a wrong way of thinking.
Aim at a big goal like doubling up with a big hand. Always keep in mind that the session success is judged by how much money you won and not by the number of moderate-size pots you won. In a big-bet game, your goal is to win massive pots.
You must choose your starting hands carefully, especially in raised pots to be on the right side of these big swings. Sometimes there will be major conflict will be between a big drawing hand and a big made hand, where anything is possible. However, often the conflict will be between two made hands.
The better hand has a hug advantage in a community-card game in such a matchup. You will want to be on the right side in these situations. When you consider both hands in a made-hand vs. Made hand all-in situation, the owner of the weaker hand will always crib that he had to play. This is true most of the times.
This means that if a top poker player would have played and got broke if he had held the weaker hand at that point of time when the big money went into the pot. However, often the top poker player would not have been in before the flop.
Do not get involved if you don’t want to fall in such traps. In holdem, the saying “what you sow is what you reap” holds true. You will be on the right side of these trap scenarios most of the times when there is solid play before the flop, especially in raised pots.
The probability of getting all-in with a drawing hand has Already been mentioned. Let us discuss this further. Against a drawing hand, a made hand will usually be a favorite at holdem. You should not be afraid of backing the right kind of draw with all your money if you want to play the game in the best way.
The rival poker player can play according to the situation if you usually have a big made hand when you bet strongly. On your big hands, you will not get played often. Obviously anyone can see when the fourth street card makes A possible flush.
There is A strong possibility that your rival poker player will make the correct play on fourth poker street when you get only a portion of your stack into the pot on the flop. The rival poker player will dump his hand if you make your flush.
If you miss, he will charge you a very steep rate to continue to draw at the last card. We will discuss this A bit later. Since, you do not know for sure where you stand when a flush card hits hence, it is Another reason to gun it out on the flop.
For example, the flop is 10♣-7♥-5♥. With a top pair and flush-draw combination such as J♥-10♥, or a straight-and-flush draw such as 9♥-8♥, it is better to move in on the flop instead of playing guessing games on fourth street.
Also, when you make a massive raise, the rival poker player may throw his hand away. Instead of a modest-size amount begging for a call, be sure that you make the same kind of big raise with this type of board when you have a set.
A good idea for keeping your rival poker player off-balance is to smooth-call an opponent’s bet on the flop or even check and call- although there is A draw on the board. The best time to do this is with a flush-draw poker out there and no straight-draw, such as k♣-8♣-3♥.
It is Always better to be slow-playing top set, or at least middle set in such situations As if the rival poker player hits trips on fourth street with a pocket pair, it breaks him, and not you.
I would like to point here that slow playing a set should be done once in a while and not on regular basis. Roughly about five to ten percent of the time is Acceptable.
We have discussed about moving all-in with a drawing hand. Do you ever move in with no hand at all? It is A rare occurrence. I believe that having an escape hatch is Always nice; a way to get lucky if the rival poker player calls.
For example, on the flop you move all-in $2000 more on a $2000 pot, have nothing, and get called. Your equity is zero.