Advanced Limit Holdem Strategy
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In this lesson we will direct our focus to strategies for the turn. If you have reached a turn decision then you haven’t folded pre-flop or on the flop and now the bets double so there is still time to get away from a marginal hand without too much damage to your stack. With 86% of your final hand realized and the bets doubling, you should fold frequently on the turn.Limit Holdem Rules
Hold’em is a rather easy game to learn but a tough game to master, partly because the game doesn’t always follow a set of rules. Tanenbaum, a professional player and writer, focuses on methods you can apply to dominate your table, including confusing opponents, identifying and dominating weak players, exploiting your position, playing for maximum effectiveness, winning without the best hand. On the more advanced level, other than simple strong-arming of your opponents’ blinds, a more sophisticated and daring method is the simple limp or check-raise. If a weak opponent is in the big blind and it’s folded to you in late position, you should limp in with any hand. When you start looking for advanced Texas holdem strategy advice you can’t find much, and what you do find rarely goes beyond the things being taught to low limit players. The bottom line is that advanced Texas holdem strategy is hard to teach and it’s hard to learn. Advanced Limit Hold’em Strategy includes: An examination of the techniques used by top players to create confusion and score extra profit. An analysis of ‘card-independent’ strategies explains how to analyze all of the situational factors before you even consider your cards. A comprehensive coverage of blind play.
You may well opine that my approach to limit hold’em appears to be very tight and that would be an accurate assessment. A tight/aggressive approach to this game will pay the dividends while a weak/tight approach would be analogous to bankroll suicide. Taking a hand too far without the correct price in limit hold’em is a formula for losing. Let’s move on to what many believe to be the most difficult street to play, the turn.
The reason why the turn is so critical is that the stakes are doubled and more often than not if you don’t fold on the turn you will be calling on the river thereby committing to a least two double bets. One exception would be holding a busted straight or flush that does not warrant a bluff on the end. Having reached the turn you will be holding one of the following type hands.
*The best hand
*A draw
*A contender with outs
*JunkThe Best Hand
You either know you have the best hand because you are holding the current nuts or you believe you hold the best hand because you’re holding Aces, for example, and the board is not coordinated nor does it appear to have helped anyone else. If you hold the nuts in position then you should be betting or raising. Straight forward play is the default action of solid limit players. With a few exceptions such as holding quads, you should not succumb to what Mike Caro has dubbed FPS – Fancy Play Syndrome. If, however, you hold the nuts not in position, then you have a more complex decision to make. You need to assess just how strong your hand is and if someone else will venture a bet if you check. The most annoying bad result of trying to be tricky is checking with the intention of check-raising only to have everyone check behind you. The icing on that cake is when a free card winds up beating you when that player may have folded to your bet. When holding what you believe is the best hand and are unsure of exactly what to do… bet! A Draw
As emphasized earlier, winning limit hold’em is driven by the math. If you’re on a draw know your outs and odds, including implied odds to determine if it is correct to proceed. Bucking the odds by continuing in a hand without the right price is a major leak committed by less experienced players who are flying by the seat of their pants. Remember, there is no shame in folding. The game does not reward the number of pots won at the end of a session but rather the number of chips accumulated. When counting your outs, make sure to focus to “clean” outs versus “tainted” outs. Clean outs are not expected to help anyone else. An example of this situation would be drawing to an open ended straight with one card to come and there are two of a suit on the board. It should be obvious that in this case you have six clean outs and two tainted outs. If this is not obvious to you, think about it until it is before proceeding.
In todays limit games it is not unusual for players to take a card off on the flop as it is still a single bet. If you’re in position, especially against a single opponent who checks, fire a double bet at him to take down the pot. If he instead raises, the vast majority of the time expect that he holds the goods and fold.A Contender with Outs
These hands are tough to play as you’re not quite sure where you stand but fear you are second best. A perfect example would be holding pocket Jacks when an overcard flops. It is in this predicament that many of the factors such as position, number of active players, knowledge of your opponents and understanding your own table image will come into play. There is no question that if you never lay down Jacks when an overcard appears on the board and an opponent keeps betting into you, then you have a big leak in your game. On the other hand, if every time a scare card appears you meekly retire you also have a big leak in your game. There is an old poker expression that states, “There is not a sniper behind every tree”. With that expression in mind, when the other factors favor the play, use that scare card against your opponent(s). Remember if the card looks scary to you, it may well be terrifying to an opponent. If the only time you show courage is when you hold the nuts you will become so predictable as to be exploitable.JunkNo Limit Texas Holdem Strategy
You might be thinking how a solid player has arrived at the turn with nothing but junk. That would occur, as one example, when in position and checked to by a single opponent you bluffed at the pot and received a call. Now if a blank falls on the turn and your single opponent checks again, you should normally follow through and bet again. Remember, many opponents will take off a card on the flop but when the bets double they become hesitant to continue unless the turn improved their hand. If you are not prepared to fire the second barrel then you should not have fired the first one. I cannot stress enough the fact that to make informed decisions you need to consider multiple factors. In this last situation, knowledge of your opponent is critical. While this might sound morally wrong, exploiting the weak in poker is the surest way to enhance your bankroll.Conclusion
The turn in fixed limit is certainly a defining moment as the stakes become doubled so errors in judgment become magnified. Those players who regularly “take off a card” on the flop with modest holdings for a single bet need to come to grips with the doubling stakes on the turn and then again on the river. Solid, experienced opponents know this fact well and use it to their advantage by exerting pressure through bets and raises to make your turn decisions even tougher.
What can be learned from arriving at the turn with a weak, vulnerable holding can be summed up in the axiom of… the first mistake is the worst mistake. If you accept the tight/aggressive formula as the best path for success in limit play, making that first mistake speaks to the tight part of the formula. I’m not suggesting that you never look at a flop with hopes of improving or mucking, just make sure that you have the discipline to muck on the turn when it appears you are running up hill.
A word of caution to this advice of mucking on the turn and that is to not become so predictable as to become exploitable. You need to know how your opponents play to assess whether they are playing you or their cards. On occasion you may need to check-raise an opponent on the turn to send the message that you’re not a weak, passive player who can be manipulated.Related Lessons
By Tom ’TIME’ Leonard
Tom has been writing about poker since 1994 and has played across the USA for over 40 years, playing every game in almost every card room in Atlantic City, California and Las Vegas.Share:
Most Texas holdem books and strategy web sites are filledwith general advice aimed at beginning and intermediate players.If you think about this it makes sense, because over 90% of thepopulation of poker players fit into one of these categories.
It’s also much easier to offer advice to the larger groupbecause most of the players are so far from playing correctlythat you can help them get huge increases in their results ifyou can get them to adjust their game in a few simple ways.
When you start looking for advanced Texas holdem strategyadvice you can’t find much, and what you do find rarely goesbeyond the things being taught to low limit players.
The bottom line is that advanced Texas holdem strategy ishard to teach and it’s hard to learn. Most players can’t handlethe concepts needed to excel at the top levels of play and willnever dedicate enough time and work to getting to a place wherethey can.
The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky is one of the mostimportant poker books that have ever been written. But if youread it before you’re ready it may hurt you as much as help you.I know this because I read it early in my poker career and itdidn’t help me at all. I went back a year later and read itagain and it was like a light bulb suddenly came on. I wasn’tready for the lessons the first time.
What you need to understand about the advice on this page isthat you may not be ready to fully utilize it in your play rightnow. If you’re not, don’t feel bad or be ashamed. Simply comeback and read it again in a couple months and a couple monthsafter that until it starts sinking in.
And even the few that do reach a point where they cancompletely grasp the lessons needed for advanced play have ahard time finding someone to teach them. They usually have tolearn by trial and error at the tables. This can be costly, butit helps reinforce the lessons as you learn them.
So if it’s so hard to learn these advanced strategies and sofew players need them, why would we dedicate an entire page tothem? Because in the quest to have the best Texas holdemresource available if we didn’t have advice for advanced playersthe quest would fall short.
We also are firm believers in providing as much solidinformation as possible and letting the players figure out whatthey can use and what they should wait on. If you can pick upsomething in these advanced strategies to improve your game by1% it can mean thousands and thousands of extra dollars to youover the course of your poker career.Psychology
At the simplest level of play Texas holdem is about math. Youuse a deck of 52 playing cards and a set hierarchy of handvalues so you can determine hand probabilities and odds in anysituation. You don’t have complete information because you don’tknow what cards your opponents hold, but you can even usemathematical equations to consider what you don’t know and stillcome up with the best play from a mathematical standpoint inevery situation.
You can even use math to determine the best way to play ahand before you even get your cards.Example
If you’re in the small blind and haven’t seen your cards yetand don’t know anything about any of your opponents, themathematically correct way to play the hand is to fold. This isbased on studies that show on average you lose money from thesmall blind with an average hand. If you haven’t seen your cardsyet you have to work on the assumption that you’ll have anaverage hand.
As you get more information you use the new information todetermine the new best way to play the hand.
If you get your cards and look down to see pocket aces,instead of folding being the most profitable way to play, youneed to raise in order to make the most money.
Any player without a learning disability who’s willing to putin the time and effort can learn how to play Texas holdem at arespectable level. You can learn how to determine the best playsand if you work long enough and hard enough you can startwinning more than you lose at the Texas holdem tables.
This isn’t a guess or sales pitch. Plenty of players haveproven this is possible, and you can do what it takes to be awinning player too. But if you’re not to this point yet you needto start on some of our other strategy pages and come back tothis one later.
So why would we start a section about psychology with a mathlesson? The last time we checked math and psychology aren’t veryclosely related.
After you master the mathematical part of Texas holdem andare ready to advance to the highest levels of play you have tostart improving your psychological game.
You have to combine superior skill with the mathematical sideof the game with an advanced ability to think about the game andyour opponents at a deeper level than you’ve ever done before.
Have you ever heard that you need to play the players insteadof the cards or in addition to the cards?
This is what we mean about Texas holdem psychology. You haveto start playing the game beyond the basic levels. To do thisyou have to consider not only how you think about the game buthow your opponents think and play and how everything thathappens changes the way they play and react.Recommended Reading
Our strategy section includes a pagethat’s dedicated to the subject of psychology in Texas holdem.Playing Texas Holdem Like a Chess Match
If you hope to be a good chess player you have to be able toconsider the current situation, how every possible move willchange the possible future outcomes, and how things can changehow your opponent will react.
New players concentrate on the current move possibilities butrarely think about the entire game, or even their next move.
As most player’s game improves they start considering how onemove might set up the next move or two, but thinking beyond oneor two moves deep is rare.
But the most advanced Texas holdem players think about everydecision and consider how it can alter and set up futuresituations.Example
In a pot limit game it’s important to determine if you have ahand where you want to build a big pot or one where you want tolimit the pot size. When you want to build a big pot you need tomake at least a small bet on each round because every bet andcall makes the possible bet on the turn and river bigger.
But if you have a drawing hand or other hand that requires alower commitment you want to avoid putting any money in the poton the early rounds so you can manage the risk verses possiblereward.
This sounds simple, but unless you consider how every actionis going to set up the end of the hand you’ll frequently findthat another player was able to manipulate the hand and pot sizeto fit their long term goals, not yours.
Another example is how you play certain hands againstopponents who’re good enough to track your play. If you alwayscheck to them on the river when you miss your draw they’ll learnthis is how you play and use it against you. They’ll startbetting on the river after you check even if they don’t have astrong hand because you check every time you’re weak.
But you can also build this belief in this opponent and thenuse it against them. Once they believe they know how you playthe river you can start betting sometimes when you miss yourdraw, because they’ll fold good but not great hands because theythink you won’t bet without a good hand.
Take a few minutes and think of some of the situations wherethinking and planning like this can come into play.
When you start considering all of the possible applicationsat the holdem tables you can start seeing why you need to startthinking about poker like a chess game.Top Tip
If you want to advance to the top levels of Texasholdem play you need to start playing chess like poker, and moreimportantly start thinking like a chess player instead of agambler.It’s Not a Single Session, But It Is
Most poker players think about each time they sit down toplay Texas holdem as a single session. If they play for threehours and then go do something else they had a single session.This isn’t the way advanced Texas holdem players view the game.
Advanced players understand that you’re in the middle of onelifelong Texas holdem game that doesn’t end until you die. Itdoesn’t matter if you play six hours a day for eighteen straightdays, or sixteen hours a day for three days in a row, it’s alljust a small part of your single long session.
If you want to play at an advanced level you need toconstantly be concentrating on making the best possible playsand putting yourself in the best possible situations to win themost money. Of course this involves doing everything you can towin during the current playing time, but your short term resultsdon’t mean anything as long as you’re making the best plays.
If you get all in with ace king against ace queen and youropponent hits a queen and you lose a big pot it can make yourbalance for the day negative, but it has nothing to do with yourlong term profitability. You know that if you can get in thatsituation often it leads directly to profit.
Your expected value in any situation is the average amountyou win or lose if you can play the exact same situationhundreds of times. At the most basic level, being a long termwinner at the Texas holdem tables is simply about puttingyourself in more positive expected value situations thannegative ones.
Everything else takes care of itself if you do this. Nothingelse really matters because it’s a simple mathematical law thatshows if you do this you’ll win in the long run.
What most players call luck is just short term variance andif you’re in a situation where your expected value is $10 everytime you play the situation, if you do it 100 times you’ll win$1,000. Sometimes you’ll lose and sometimes you’ll win more orless than $10, but in the long run the expected value always endup where it’s supposed to.
So remember that being an advanced Texas holdem winner isn’tabout the short session, but about the life long session. Thenconcentrate on setting up and exploiting positive expectationsituations as often as possible.Big Hand Poker
Some players seem to win a lot of pots and others can sitback and only win a few pots per day, but still show a long termprofit. How can they still turn a profit when they only win afew hands in comparison to other players?Example
In a no limit Texas holdem game the blinds are $10 / $20 andthe average stack size is over $2,000. On average, you have topost $100 per hour in blinds. The table is aggressive and has acouple loose players. You play a six hour stint and playextremely tight, looking for opportunities to win big pots whileletting the other players fight over smaller pots.
This is a perfect situation to illustrate the big pot way tolong term prof
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In this lesson we will direct our focus to strategies for the turn. If you have reached a turn decision then you haven’t folded pre-flop or on the flop and now the bets double so there is still time to get away from a marginal hand without too much damage to your stack. With 86% of your final hand realized and the bets doubling, you should fold frequently on the turn.Limit Holdem Rules
Hold’em is a rather easy game to learn but a tough game to master, partly because the game doesn’t always follow a set of rules. Tanenbaum, a professional player and writer, focuses on methods you can apply to dominate your table, including confusing opponents, identifying and dominating weak players, exploiting your position, playing for maximum effectiveness, winning without the best hand. On the more advanced level, other than simple strong-arming of your opponents’ blinds, a more sophisticated and daring method is the simple limp or check-raise. If a weak opponent is in the big blind and it’s folded to you in late position, you should limp in with any hand. When you start looking for advanced Texas holdem strategy advice you can’t find much, and what you do find rarely goes beyond the things being taught to low limit players. The bottom line is that advanced Texas holdem strategy is hard to teach and it’s hard to learn. Advanced Limit Hold’em Strategy includes: An examination of the techniques used by top players to create confusion and score extra profit. An analysis of ‘card-independent’ strategies explains how to analyze all of the situational factors before you even consider your cards. A comprehensive coverage of blind play.
You may well opine that my approach to limit hold’em appears to be very tight and that would be an accurate assessment. A tight/aggressive approach to this game will pay the dividends while a weak/tight approach would be analogous to bankroll suicide. Taking a hand too far without the correct price in limit hold’em is a formula for losing. Let’s move on to what many believe to be the most difficult street to play, the turn.
The reason why the turn is so critical is that the stakes are doubled and more often than not if you don’t fold on the turn you will be calling on the river thereby committing to a least two double bets. One exception would be holding a busted straight or flush that does not warrant a bluff on the end. Having reached the turn you will be holding one of the following type hands.
*The best hand
*A draw
*A contender with outs
*JunkThe Best Hand
You either know you have the best hand because you are holding the current nuts or you believe you hold the best hand because you’re holding Aces, for example, and the board is not coordinated nor does it appear to have helped anyone else. If you hold the nuts in position then you should be betting or raising. Straight forward play is the default action of solid limit players. With a few exceptions such as holding quads, you should not succumb to what Mike Caro has dubbed FPS – Fancy Play Syndrome. If, however, you hold the nuts not in position, then you have a more complex decision to make. You need to assess just how strong your hand is and if someone else will venture a bet if you check. The most annoying bad result of trying to be tricky is checking with the intention of check-raising only to have everyone check behind you. The icing on that cake is when a free card winds up beating you when that player may have folded to your bet. When holding what you believe is the best hand and are unsure of exactly what to do… bet! A Draw
As emphasized earlier, winning limit hold’em is driven by the math. If you’re on a draw know your outs and odds, including implied odds to determine if it is correct to proceed. Bucking the odds by continuing in a hand without the right price is a major leak committed by less experienced players who are flying by the seat of their pants. Remember, there is no shame in folding. The game does not reward the number of pots won at the end of a session but rather the number of chips accumulated. When counting your outs, make sure to focus to “clean” outs versus “tainted” outs. Clean outs are not expected to help anyone else. An example of this situation would be drawing to an open ended straight with one card to come and there are two of a suit on the board. It should be obvious that in this case you have six clean outs and two tainted outs. If this is not obvious to you, think about it until it is before proceeding.
In todays limit games it is not unusual for players to take a card off on the flop as it is still a single bet. If you’re in position, especially against a single opponent who checks, fire a double bet at him to take down the pot. If he instead raises, the vast majority of the time expect that he holds the goods and fold.A Contender with Outs
These hands are tough to play as you’re not quite sure where you stand but fear you are second best. A perfect example would be holding pocket Jacks when an overcard flops. It is in this predicament that many of the factors such as position, number of active players, knowledge of your opponents and understanding your own table image will come into play. There is no question that if you never lay down Jacks when an overcard appears on the board and an opponent keeps betting into you, then you have a big leak in your game. On the other hand, if every time a scare card appears you meekly retire you also have a big leak in your game. There is an old poker expression that states, “There is not a sniper behind every tree”. With that expression in mind, when the other factors favor the play, use that scare card against your opponent(s). Remember if the card looks scary to you, it may well be terrifying to an opponent. If the only time you show courage is when you hold the nuts you will become so predictable as to be exploitable.JunkNo Limit Texas Holdem Strategy
You might be thinking how a solid player has arrived at the turn with nothing but junk. That would occur, as one example, when in position and checked to by a single opponent you bluffed at the pot and received a call. Now if a blank falls on the turn and your single opponent checks again, you should normally follow through and bet again. Remember, many opponents will take off a card on the flop but when the bets double they become hesitant to continue unless the turn improved their hand. If you are not prepared to fire the second barrel then you should not have fired the first one. I cannot stress enough the fact that to make informed decisions you need to consider multiple factors. In this last situation, knowledge of your opponent is critical. While this might sound morally wrong, exploiting the weak in poker is the surest way to enhance your bankroll.Conclusion
The turn in fixed limit is certainly a defining moment as the stakes become doubled so errors in judgment become magnified. Those players who regularly “take off a card” on the flop with modest holdings for a single bet need to come to grips with the doubling stakes on the turn and then again on the river. Solid, experienced opponents know this fact well and use it to their advantage by exerting pressure through bets and raises to make your turn decisions even tougher.
What can be learned from arriving at the turn with a weak, vulnerable holding can be summed up in the axiom of… the first mistake is the worst mistake. If you accept the tight/aggressive formula as the best path for success in limit play, making that first mistake speaks to the tight part of the formula. I’m not suggesting that you never look at a flop with hopes of improving or mucking, just make sure that you have the discipline to muck on the turn when it appears you are running up hill.
A word of caution to this advice of mucking on the turn and that is to not become so predictable as to become exploitable. You need to know how your opponents play to assess whether they are playing you or their cards. On occasion you may need to check-raise an opponent on the turn to send the message that you’re not a weak, passive player who can be manipulated.Related Lessons
By Tom ’TIME’ Leonard
Tom has been writing about poker since 1994 and has played across the USA for over 40 years, playing every game in almost every card room in Atlantic City, California and Las Vegas.Share:
Most Texas holdem books and strategy web sites are filledwith general advice aimed at beginning and intermediate players.If you think about this it makes sense, because over 90% of thepopulation of poker players fit into one of these categories.
It’s also much easier to offer advice to the larger groupbecause most of the players are so far from playing correctlythat you can help them get huge increases in their results ifyou can get them to adjust their game in a few simple ways.
When you start looking for advanced Texas holdem strategyadvice you can’t find much, and what you do find rarely goesbeyond the things being taught to low limit players.
The bottom line is that advanced Texas holdem strategy ishard to teach and it’s hard to learn. Most players can’t handlethe concepts needed to excel at the top levels of play and willnever dedicate enough time and work to getting to a place wherethey can.
The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky is one of the mostimportant poker books that have ever been written. But if youread it before you’re ready it may hurt you as much as help you.I know this because I read it early in my poker career and itdidn’t help me at all. I went back a year later and read itagain and it was like a light bulb suddenly came on. I wasn’tready for the lessons the first time.
What you need to understand about the advice on this page isthat you may not be ready to fully utilize it in your play rightnow. If you’re not, don’t feel bad or be ashamed. Simply comeback and read it again in a couple months and a couple monthsafter that until it starts sinking in.
And even the few that do reach a point where they cancompletely grasp the lessons needed for advanced play have ahard time finding someone to teach them. They usually have tolearn by trial and error at the tables. This can be costly, butit helps reinforce the lessons as you learn them.
So if it’s so hard to learn these advanced strategies and sofew players need them, why would we dedicate an entire page tothem? Because in the quest to have the best Texas holdemresource available if we didn’t have advice for advanced playersthe quest would fall short.
We also are firm believers in providing as much solidinformation as possible and letting the players figure out whatthey can use and what they should wait on. If you can pick upsomething in these advanced strategies to improve your game by1% it can mean thousands and thousands of extra dollars to youover the course of your poker career.Psychology
At the simplest level of play Texas holdem is about math. Youuse a deck of 52 playing cards and a set hierarchy of handvalues so you can determine hand probabilities and odds in anysituation. You don’t have complete information because you don’tknow what cards your opponents hold, but you can even usemathematical equations to consider what you don’t know and stillcome up with the best play from a mathematical standpoint inevery situation.
You can even use math to determine the best way to play ahand before you even get your cards.Example
If you’re in the small blind and haven’t seen your cards yetand don’t know anything about any of your opponents, themathematically correct way to play the hand is to fold. This isbased on studies that show on average you lose money from thesmall blind with an average hand. If you haven’t seen your cardsyet you have to work on the assumption that you’ll have anaverage hand.
As you get more information you use the new information todetermine the new best way to play the hand.
If you get your cards and look down to see pocket aces,instead of folding being the most profitable way to play, youneed to raise in order to make the most money.
Any player without a learning disability who’s willing to putin the time and effort can learn how to play Texas holdem at arespectable level. You can learn how to determine the best playsand if you work long enough and hard enough you can startwinning more than you lose at the Texas holdem tables.
This isn’t a guess or sales pitch. Plenty of players haveproven this is possible, and you can do what it takes to be awinning player too. But if you’re not to this point yet you needto start on some of our other strategy pages and come back tothis one later.
So why would we start a section about psychology with a mathlesson? The last time we checked math and psychology aren’t veryclosely related.
After you master the mathematical part of Texas holdem andare ready to advance to the highest levels of play you have tostart improving your psychological game.
You have to combine superior skill with the mathematical sideof the game with an advanced ability to think about the game andyour opponents at a deeper level than you’ve ever done before.
Have you ever heard that you need to play the players insteadof the cards or in addition to the cards?
This is what we mean about Texas holdem psychology. You haveto start playing the game beyond the basic levels. To do thisyou have to consider not only how you think about the game buthow your opponents think and play and how everything thathappens changes the way they play and react.Recommended Reading
Our strategy section includes a pagethat’s dedicated to the subject of psychology in Texas holdem.Playing Texas Holdem Like a Chess Match
If you hope to be a good chess player you have to be able toconsider the current situation, how every possible move willchange the possible future outcomes, and how things can changehow your opponent will react.
New players concentrate on the current move possibilities butrarely think about the entire game, or even their next move.
As most player’s game improves they start considering how onemove might set up the next move or two, but thinking beyond oneor two moves deep is rare.
But the most advanced Texas holdem players think about everydecision and consider how it can alter and set up futuresituations.Example
In a pot limit game it’s important to determine if you have ahand where you want to build a big pot or one where you want tolimit the pot size. When you want to build a big pot you need tomake at least a small bet on each round because every bet andcall makes the possible bet on the turn and river bigger.
But if you have a drawing hand or other hand that requires alower commitment you want to avoid putting any money in the poton the early rounds so you can manage the risk verses possiblereward.
This sounds simple, but unless you consider how every actionis going to set up the end of the hand you’ll frequently findthat another player was able to manipulate the hand and pot sizeto fit their long term goals, not yours.
Another example is how you play certain hands againstopponents who’re good enough to track your play. If you alwayscheck to them on the river when you miss your draw they’ll learnthis is how you play and use it against you. They’ll startbetting on the river after you check even if they don’t have astrong hand because you check every time you’re weak.
But you can also build this belief in this opponent and thenuse it against them. Once they believe they know how you playthe river you can start betting sometimes when you miss yourdraw, because they’ll fold good but not great hands because theythink you won’t bet without a good hand.
Take a few minutes and think of some of the situations wherethinking and planning like this can come into play.
When you start considering all of the possible applicationsat the holdem tables you can start seeing why you need to startthinking about poker like a chess game.Top Tip
If you want to advance to the top levels of Texasholdem play you need to start playing chess like poker, and moreimportantly start thinking like a chess player instead of agambler.It’s Not a Single Session, But It Is
Most poker players think about each time they sit down toplay Texas holdem as a single session. If they play for threehours and then go do something else they had a single session.This isn’t the way advanced Texas holdem players view the game.
Advanced players understand that you’re in the middle of onelifelong Texas holdem game that doesn’t end until you die. Itdoesn’t matter if you play six hours a day for eighteen straightdays, or sixteen hours a day for three days in a row, it’s alljust a small part of your single long session.
If you want to play at an advanced level you need toconstantly be concentrating on making the best possible playsand putting yourself in the best possible situations to win themost money. Of course this involves doing everything you can towin during the current playing time, but your short term resultsdon’t mean anything as long as you’re making the best plays.
If you get all in with ace king against ace queen and youropponent hits a queen and you lose a big pot it can make yourbalance for the day negative, but it has nothing to do with yourlong term profitability. You know that if you can get in thatsituation often it leads directly to profit.
Your expected value in any situation is the average amountyou win or lose if you can play the exact same situationhundreds of times. At the most basic level, being a long termwinner at the Texas holdem tables is simply about puttingyourself in more positive expected value situations thannegative ones.
Everything else takes care of itself if you do this. Nothingelse really matters because it’s a simple mathematical law thatshows if you do this you’ll win in the long run.
What most players call luck is just short term variance andif you’re in a situation where your expected value is $10 everytime you play the situation, if you do it 100 times you’ll win$1,000. Sometimes you’ll lose and sometimes you’ll win more orless than $10, but in the long run the expected value always endup where it’s supposed to.
So remember that being an advanced Texas holdem winner isn’tabout the short session, but about the life long session. Thenconcentrate on setting up and exploiting positive expectationsituations as often as possible.Big Hand Poker
Some players seem to win a lot of pots and others can sitback and only win a few pots per day, but still show a long termprofit. How can they still turn a profit when they only win afew hands in comparison to other players?Example
In a no limit Texas holdem game the blinds are $10 / $20 andthe average stack size is over $2,000. On average, you have topost $100 per hour in blinds. The table is aggressive and has acouple loose players. You play a six hour stint and playextremely tight, looking for opportunities to win big pots whileletting the other players fight over smaller pots.
This is a perfect situation to illustrate the big pot way tolong term prof
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