Advanced no limit hold em basic concepts to get good at through repetition.
Give weak players bad odds when they're on a draw, by betting first. To milk money from them. Good players you need to trap. Play the opposite of what the table is. Loose play tight aggressive, tight play loose aggressive.
Implied odds is the name of the game when it comes to no-limit. Unlike limit poker
Implying that they already have a good hand to call you with when you hit your speculative hand and they won't expect the speculative hand and get scared away.
- 6,7 suited with opponents chip stack of 1000$ at a call of 20$ is worth the implied odds but if he only has 100$ in front of him then it's not worth the 20$ bet to have a chance to win his stack.
- Play 9,j off suit against one player if you get the gut shot on the turn to get more action from him on those 2 more bets. Not ideal. But works.
- Having a speculative hand while the first to act raises and there are 4 callers and then you reraise and trap everyone for 2 times the original bet. And then you hit the speculative and get action from them all the way even trapping one of them for a whole stack. Best case scenario.
- Bet 3 times the big blind against loose opponents or call a raise with AK suited and get 2 callers and the ace hits on the flop with top pair and top kicker.
If you are unable to make the correct sized bets at each stage of the hand, you will find that you will have a very big leak in your game.
- Give bad odds to drawing hands. So they don't draw. This is also a good way to bluff. To do this bet 3/4ths the size of the pot or 4 times the big blind +1 for each player pre-flop. Or 3 times their bet size. And if it's 33% of your chip stack to call then go all in.
- How much are your opponents willing to pay with what you think they have.
- Always bet big before the flop if bet at all to get rid of any players on a draw and with minimum bet you will have a lot of callers with lots of chances to outdraw you. And you get no info about there hand because they call with any 2 cards.
Aggressive play opens up more doors than passive. It depends on which doors you walk through. Most top poker players on TV are either tight aggressive or loose aggressive. Which one do you like most? Because you need to make it your own. Create your own way or style, don't copy someone else. Make up your own mind what's best through your own research and development. Maybe even discover new secrets nobody else knows.
- Buy position by the good positions folding to your high bet.
- Earn free cards by weak hands checking to your high pair then folding to your raise. And then strong hands checking to your draw for a free card.
- Loose aggressive leads to wide fluctuations in winnings while tight aggressive is more a steady pace.
- They will trap you if you are aggressive so watch out. And be able to read the other players.
- Aggressive players can be bluffed because of the fact that they are both selective and aggressive. Do not bluff weak players because they call, so bet for value, and give bad odds. They call too much and stay in too long with weak hands.
- Reraise at the right time(sign of strength)
- Call a big raise or make a big raise before the flop and an ace comes on flop. Then raise or reraise against right opponent.
What types of players there are and how to beat them.
Create the most profitable situations out of every hand you do play before you even start playing them then carry out the play.
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Saw some really good poker players recently and their system seemed sort of simple.
..Call all the way to end with any chance of winning.
..Bet all the way to the river with any chance of winning.
..Obviously bet 3 times the minimum bet(+1p) or call that. or call or bet 1/3 to 1/2 the pot, bet sizing. To keep you from drawing, or to keep you in to pay them of slowly or let you put yourself all in.
..The other good players and them would go back and forth and not win money off of each other, but they'd evenly win money from the bad players making mistakes.
..They probably also knew exactly what I had and could not tell what each other had. All from how I bet and how they bet, along with body language, or their lack of any.
..This only really works when 3 times the minimum bet is a small portion of your chip stack. So it doesn't work in small tournaments with small chipstacks. only deep stack tournaments, or cash tables. For small chip stack tournaments you might as well just play best hands and never bet to give bad odds or value bet. and only call if good pot odds.
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Playing position: Blind stealing:
Position and agressive betting will help you win a lot of small pots
Bet 1/2 to 3/4 of the pot
Bet three times the big blind preflop
When you miss the flop take one more stab at the pot.
Only with hands that can hit big, no garbage.
If they check to you then take stab at it.
All of these in position.
Small ball: Relies on position. Risk little money to make a lot, know how to set traps and avoid them is what sets advanced players apart from weaker ones.
Avoiding traps:
Keep the faith in the system by folding marginal hands when raised.
Don't play big pots unless you have the upper hand.
Small ball is only effective if you are disciplined enough to fold good hands.
Setting traps:
Small ball is a trap in and of itself
play "small bet poker" to lose a little but win a lot.
Stay aggressive.
Play your good hands as you would your bluffs.
Always bet the same so no one can ever tell what you have.
Calling with nothing:
With position your hand is often irrelevant
If the board gets scary represent what scares your opponent
Look to take the pot with a bluff on the turn.
Defending your blind:
Make your opponents know you'll defend your blind.
The math is on your side- in the blind you get a discount.
When you miss the flop don't feel obligated to bluff.
Going pro:
Confidence is maintained by believing in your game
learning never stops- constantly work on your game.
The day you stop learning is the day other players pass you by.
Pot odds
Semi bluff: Put your opponent on a hand and if you think they're drawing dead then reraise them when you only have a draw. You now can either win the pot by them folding or by hitting your draw.
Implied odds
Poker plays:
"Phantom poker": Calling with nothing, in position, when they show weakness bet half the pot
"Mississippi bluff": Going all in on the river if they show weakness on the turn. Not small ball !
"Stop and go": don't go all in with pocket pair against AK before flop instead stop and go all in on the flop.
"Squeeze play" Against a bettor and a caller and you in position raise and take out the bettor because of uncertainty and the caller because of marginal hand.
poker tells:
..When their eyes glance at their chips then that means they like what they see
..When they reach for chips early then that means they're going to bet or raise and have something good.
..When they splash their chips and shove their hands out then that means they're trying to scare you and are bluffing. Why would you want to scare them off.
.. the alagory being that if they're nervous they are not bluffing because it's a natural release of tension when they made their hand and are then jittery.
..When you ask them a question and they speak jibberish it's probably because they're nervous and because they're bluffing.
.. If you can see the pulse on their neck then that means they have something good because you cannot stop physiologically stop the surge of adrenaline.
..if they blink their eyes really fast that usually means that they're bluffing.
..percing their lips means they're bluffing.
..rubbing their hands or legs or arms or face or running tounge inside cheek all means that they're usually bluffing because it's soothing to do these things.
..Happy feet: moving their legs up and down rapidly under the table means they hit a big hand and are not bluffing.
..Messy chips means loose or drunk player. Neat chips means tight player.
.. "Pokerclack" make a tsk sound trying to seem sad but are really happy.
.. If they stare at the pot then they didn't make anything but if they glace at it and then look away trying to seem uninterested then they really did make something.
..checking your whole cards means you're looking for suited. like when 3 to a flush come up. Never check your cards after the flop, it's like giving money away.
..Shoulder shrug or sigh or sadness usually indicates that they have strong cards and are just acting to get you to call.
.. If they start to bet, reach for your own chips, if they want you to call they will hurry their chips into the pot but if they are bluffing they hesitate and back down.
.. licking of the lips or bitting of the lips is an accurate indicator that there's some stress going on.
..seeing something negative makes you squint your eyes.
Trapping players: Good for early in a tournament
Continuation bets: To
Stealing blinds: Good for later in a tournament
Betting on a draw: Always bet but different amounts to throw people off, 1/3-full pot bet.
Check raise: Know that they will bet first, or know that you have a good hand if they call. Need to do sometimes to keep opponents off guard.
Information sources/reactions: Tells(good info), odds (pot, implied) and outs(good info), Bet first and make odds(good info), type of player(less than perfect info),betting patterns(less than perfect info), seeing their hand and how they played it on each round,
Bluffing: Find small ball players pressure points by noting their tendencies of what fraction of the pot they will bet or call and bet right above that when bluffing. Home run ball players you let them bet and you call and trap them with the nuts.
Ranges:
blinds antes- If blinds are zero then you'd only play a hand if it was 2 aces, if blinds were 50% of chip stack then you'd be all in with almost any hand every time.
chip stack- with small chip stack then stealing blinds is worth a lot, with big chip stack stealing blinds is inconsequential
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