Monday, August 17, 2009

What every player needs to know

PREDICTABILITY

So, after our harping on about discipline, playing good cards, and exhibiting patience, we should also point out that being predictable will make other players fold to your raises and avoid the few situations in which you are playing a strong hand. (Remember, they are watching you too!).

Agressively playing the occasional suited connector(e.g 8c-7c)can leave your opponents guessing, particularly if the flop gives you the strongest hand. This is even the case if the flop is 6-9-2, giving you the open-ended straight draw where you have at least eight outs(four 5s or four 10s could potentially be in the deck-giving you a roughly 30% shot of hitting the likely winning hand). If you expose this hand in a showdown, your opponents will now know that you don't just play high pairs or A-K options, and that will make you harder to predict.

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