Opinion on strategy...
Hey guys I was wondering if everyone could put in there 2 cents here in helping me compile the best strategy for a certain game that I have started playing online and am finding quite enjoying...
NL Texas Holdem, max $25 buy in... at of course my favorite site, Ultimatebet.com
I personally have found that being tight on this end is perhaps the best way to go about things... tight-agressive.
However here is something that I have been trying, playing tight is great... but sometimes you play a not so good hand just protecting your big bling. Lets say for arguments sake, 9c8c is what you look down at. The flop comes, Jh 10d 8s... so here is a situation where you have the bottom pair on the flop(and an open ended straight draw). Only you and 2 others are in the hand. So what to do, I have tried the current situation... I am not going to put anyone on a HUGE hand like a set of J's or 10's... I am assuming that noone had a pocket pair of 8's pre flop... so here is what I did. I raise all in... the other two fold and I pick up the pot. What do you all think?
Do you think that this has a chance of working often, or do you think that I should just stick with playing tight-agressive... very conservative... get my money in when it counts and out when you dont have the goods? Would like opinions on this subject, thanks all.
NL Texas Holdem, max $25 buy in... at of course my favorite site, Ultimatebet.com
I personally have found that being tight on this end is perhaps the best way to go about things... tight-agressive.
However here is something that I have been trying, playing tight is great... but sometimes you play a not so good hand just protecting your big bling. Lets say for arguments sake, 9c8c is what you look down at. The flop comes, Jh 10d 8s... so here is a situation where you have the bottom pair on the flop(and an open ended straight draw). Only you and 2 others are in the hand. So what to do, I have tried the current situation... I am not going to put anyone on a HUGE hand like a set of J's or 10's... I am assuming that noone had a pocket pair of 8's pre flop... so here is what I did. I raise all in... the other two fold and I pick up the pot. What do you all think?
Do you think that this has a chance of working often, or do you think that I should just stick with playing tight-agressive... very conservative... get my money in when it counts and out when you dont have the goods? Would like opinions on this subject, thanks all.
Comments
I believe you mean *bet* all-in, right?
I probably wouldn't make this play. Sure you want to pick up the odd small pot every now and then at NL, but moving all-in doesn't seem like a sensible overbet here. (I'm assuming it's a large overbet since I don't know the details.) Committing your whole stack to a bluff into a small pot doesn't seem optimal.
This strikes me as exactly the kind of hand which, for a huge bet:
1. will almost never be called by a significantly worse hand
2. when called, will either be only a small favorite (nearly a coin toss), or be significantly behind.
My feeling is you will not win enough small pots to make up for the times when your opponent wakes up with a big hand behind you and wins your whole stack.
And be careful what hands you read your opponents for. I'd often limp-in in low-limit NL with hands like JJ, TT, 88, JT, etc. Kind of for the reason that my opponents might do things like move all-in with hands like bottom pair/straight draw.
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