A Little Poker Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing

Here is some limit poker advice, but remember this stuff is not carved in stone. The type of opponents, the trend of the game and your table image are factors no one can predict when shelling out practical poker advice. But this stuff is usually correct. Just, not always – and that is the beauty of poker:

Position is most important with three or four players in the hand. Having position is still an advantage heads up or in a multi-way pot, but it is close to critical with three or four players competing for a pot.

The boundary line between having a large number of opponents in a hand and a small number of opponents is – three.

Do not overlook the chance that you will hit your ‘dream hand’ and still lose. For instance, drawing for an over card with lets say (AT). You could hit your [A] and still lose to (AQ) or (A-rag) that hit two pair.

If you would not call a raise from the button with the hand you are holding in the small blind – fold.

An unpaired hand will make a pair, straight draw or flush draw only 1/3 of the time.

The turn card is where money is made. A bet here can chase out add to your profit two ways – taking a pot down without a showdown and getting extra $ from inferior hands.

However, when facing a raise of a bet on the turn, the bettor usually can beat top pair.

Beware of ‘tainted’ cards that improve your hand, but could have strengthened your opponent’s hand even more.

Chances of flopping a flush is just .8 %. But if you had let’s say (Qd Jd) and the flop is [8d 6d 4d], slow-playing is inviting the (Kd) or (Ad) to snap you off.

The chance of flopping a straight with two connected cards is not much better at 1.3%.