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The Dean United Kingdom. Feb 19 2015 10:29. Posts 2 | | |
Let us start this post off by looking at a very common example taken from a $0.50-$1.00 game that I play in. It had been folded around to the cut-off player who raised to $3.50. Now in online poker you need to have as much information as is possible to form your decisions but in this hand then my opponent was new to me. I held the Qc-Jd on the button which was clearly a hand that I would have raised with had my opponent folded.
They had a stack of $98.50 having gone through the blinds once after buying in for 100bb. My stack was 117bb on this table and my choice here is between calling the raise, folding and three betting. I do not know my opponent but I have a hand that fares well against what is probably an average range of a position stealer. At the level of online poker that we are playing at which is NL100 then most players are pretty strong as a rule and will open their ranges from position to steal.
The best players use a piece of software that is absolutely free called PokerStove although I use and prefer Equilab. This helps you to visualise the hand by way of equity. We need to put our opponent onto a range of hands and then find out how our hand stacks up against that range. I think that my opponent would raise with any pair and certainly any Broadway hand. They would also raise with suited aces and many suited connectors and kings. Using PokerStove allows us to see that this is around 30% of their total range as a minimum in online no limit Texas hold’em.
So entering my Q-J hand allows me to see that against a 30% range that my hand has around 46% equity against that range which is very good considering that I also have position. That is simply too much equity to fold even though folding isn’t really all that bad in a vacuum. You at least have to make your opponent feel uncomfortable about raising with too wide of a range because they will deny you many opportunities to make money. Three betting is also an option but you can see how having a fair indication of our opponents ranges allows us to see what a good play is here but more importantly to know why we are making the play that we are.
In online no limit Texas hold’em poker then it is often remarked how “any two cards can win”. This is true but only when looked at within the confines of a single hand. Unless you begin to look at the long term profitability of poker hands rather than the short term then you will find it very difficult to become a winning online poker player.
To know that you have 46% equity against your opponents estimated range is to know where you stand in the hand or to go some way towards understanding where you are. You could three bet them as part of your short term poker strategy with a hand like 7-2o but what happens if your raise gets called? The profit potential of your hand is so low that it is difficult to win money by any other way other than bluffing and this makes playing the hand in the first place a long term mistake in no limit hold’em.
Carl Sampson is a professional poker player who plays online at www.888poker.com
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NewbSaibot United States. Feb 20 2015 00:50. Posts 4943 | | |
I 3bet QJo there because if I was him I'd be raising a lot of bullshit in the CO so fuck me, 3bet the shit out of me from the BTN. |
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Santafairy Korea (South). Feb 20 2015 01:43. Posts 2225 | | |
| | On February 19 2015 09:29 The Dean wrote:At the level of online poker that we are playing at which is NL100 then most players are pretty strong |
| | On February 19 2015 09:29 The Dean wrote:They had a stack of $98.50 having gone through the blinds once after buying in for 100bb. |
strong players rebuy, whoever made up this spam story should be ashamed of themselves |
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Bobosaur Canada. Feb 20 2015 05:17. Posts 30 | | |
read all your posts for some lols. |
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lol what is this, the best players used pokerstove..... in 2007 |
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