One of the things after learning to continuation bet is learning not to continuation bet. I don’t mean just the times you miss the flop and the flop hits your opponent’s range or you have more than one opponent, but the times that it’s better not to bet because you’re likely ahead and will lose [...]
A friend of mine played a hand at a $100NL cash No Limit Holdem poker table where he open raised garbage from the button. Both blinds called, and the flop came with two 2s, giving my friend trip 2s. Before all was done he got the big blind all in, the big blind holding AA [...]
If you’re playing freerolls, penny cash tables, or cheap Sit and Goes it’s worth keeping in mind that you often have no or little fold equity. In the last fold equity post I used the example of having 1-1/2 big blinds left, shoving, and being called by the blinds. You don’t have enough chips to [...]
Bluffing and fold equity are related, obviously. It’s because you believe that you have fold equity that you bluff. If there was no chance at all that your opponent might fold (zero fold equity), then there’s no point trying to bluff. For example, in a tournament you just lost a big hand and have 150 [...]
Again with poker aggression topics. A relatively inexperienced poker player asked the question what to do about the fact that she is not comfortable with the bluffing involved in No Limit Hold’em poker. She says that she’s comfortable with the mathematics of odds, and she finds herself more comfortable with other poker games other than [...]