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Texas Holdem is a game where you should pick and choose your battles wisely. Playing every hand will of course lead to winning more pots. But in between those wins will be
more losses as well. Playing the right hands, at the right time will leave you with more chips in your stack.
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That leads us to seat position. Timing is everything in some cases, and in poker it certainly counts for something. While some cards are playable under some circumstances,
they aren't under others. Seat position is a key part of the circumstances that dictate whether you should play a hand, or wait for a better opportunity to present itself.
Professional poker players can sense what their opponents have in their hands. When just beginning you may not be able to read your opponents with that level of skill, but if you
can take a moment to read the cards on the board, you can tell with certainty what they do not have. Reading the board lets you know what hands are possible, and from there
you can use other information from your opponents to gauge what hands are probable. And act accordingly.
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Poker Strategy
- Reasons to call
There are several reasons for calling a bet or raise, summarized below.
* To see more cards: With a drawing hand, a player may be receiving the correct pot odds with the call to see more cards.
* To limit loss in equity: Calling may be appropriate when a player has adequate pot odds to call but will lose equity on money contributed to the pot.
* To avoid a re-raise: Only calling (and not raising) denies the original bettor the option of re-raising.
* To conceal the strength of a player's hand: If a player has a very strong hand, he might smooth call on an early betting round to avoid giving away the
strength of his hand on the hope of getting more money into the pot in later betting rounds.
* To manipulate pot odds: By calling (not raising), a player offers any opponents yet to act behind him more favorable pot odds to also call. For example, if a
player has a very strong hand, a smooth call may encourage opponents behind him to overcall, building the pot. Particularly in limit games, building the pot in
an earlier betting round may induce opponents to call future bets in later betting rounds because of the pot odds they will be receiving.
* To set up a bluff on a later betting round: Sometimes referred to as a long-ball bluff, calling on an earlier betting round can set up a bluff (or semi-bluff) on a
later betting round.
Gap concept
The gap concept states that a player needs a better hand to play against someone who has already opened the betting than he would need to open himself. The
gap concept reflects that players prefer to avoid confrontations with another player who has already indicated strength, and that calling only has one way to win
(by having the best hand), whereas opening (or raising) may also win immediately if your opponent(s) fold.
Sandwich effect
Related to the gap effect, the sandwich effect states that a player needs a stronger hand to stay in a pot when there are opponents yet to act behind him. Because
the player doesn't know how many opponents will be involved in the pot or whether he will have to call a re-raise, he doesn't know what his effective pot odds actually
are. Therefore, a stronger hand is desired as compensation for this uncertainty.
Loose/tight play
Loose players play relatively more hands and tend to continue with weaker hands. Tight players play relatively fewer hands and tend not to continue with weaker
hands. The following concepts are applicable in loose games (and their inverse in tight games):
* Bluffs and semi-bluffs are less effective because loose opponents are less likely to fold.
* Requirements for continuing with made hands may be lower because loose players may also be playing lower value hands.
* Drawing to incomplete hands, like flushes, tends to be more valuable as draws will often get favorable pot odds and a stronger hand (rather than merely one
pair) is often required to win in multi-way pots.
Often players will find themselves in need of a card to complete their hand. These hands are known as drawing hands. When on a drawing hand, it's nice to know what the odds
of your ship actually coming in are. Armed with those odds, you're better able to play your hand correctly. So, see the drawing odds page for a chart that will tell you the odds of
completing your gutshot straight, flush, or three-of-a-kind. Information is power at the table, and this information is part of the basic skills that winning poker players possess.
Related to drawing odds is the concept of pot odds. When you know you're waiting on a card to complete your hand, and there's a bet before you, you'd like to know if calling
that bet is a good idea or a bad idea. If you're familiar with the concept of pot-odds, you'd be informed enough to make that decision. When you're ready to have that kind of
power at the tables, read the primer on pot odds.
Poker Play
- Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by
replacing cards.
The descriptions below assume that you are familiar with the general game play of poker, and with hand values (both high and low variations). They also make
no assumptions about what betting structure is used. In home games, it is typical to use an ante, and betting always begins with the player to the dealer's
left. In casino play, it is more common to use blinds; the first betting round thus begins with the player to the left of the big blind, and subsequent rounds
begin with the player to the dealer's left, thus draw games are very positional.
Some sample deals below will assume that a game is being played by four players: Alice, who is dealing in the examples, Bob, who is sitting to her left, Carol
to his left, and David to Carol's left.
Gardena jackpots ("Jacks to open" or simply "Jackpots")
Played as above, with standard hand values, and with a single joker in the deck acting as a bug. Always played with an ante and no blinds. On the first
betting round, no player is allowed to open the betting unless his hand already contains a pair of jacks or a better hand. Other players who checked on the
first round may subsequently call or raise if someone else opens. If no player opens, a new deal begins and everyone antes again into the same pot. The
player who opened the betting keeps his discarded cards near him on the table so that he can prove, if necessary, that he had a sufficient opening hand. For
example, a player with the K, J, 9, and 7 of clubs and the J of hearts has a pair of jacks and may open. He may wish to "break openers" in this case by
discarding the jack of hearts in an attempt to make the club flush, so he keeps the discarded jack to prove that he was entitled to open
The game is named after the city of Gardena, California, where this game was especially popular from the 1930s to 1970s (though it was always secondary
to lowball). At that time, there were more public poker tables in that small city than in all the rest of the United States. Public poker rooms are still a big industry
there, though Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and other locations now have many more poker rooms than they did at that time. Because "Jacks to open" was the
primary form of high-hand draw poker played there, traditional draw poker was often described by the retronym "Guts to open".
In home games, it is common that when a deal is "passed out" (that is, when no one opens), the players re-ante, and the qualifier to open is raised to a
pair of queens. If that deal is passed out, the qualifier is raised to kings, and finally to aces. This is called "progressive" jackpots.
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