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Play Poker Online For Free And Win Making Your Opponents Pay You
To score bigger poker wins, be you a free online poker or big money player you have to be able to put your opponents off their balance, be able to unnerve them and make them fear what you have planned for them. Above all you should make them pay big for any hand wins they get or for any play style information you might have to show with the overall aim being to set up your big pot win later.
This is not simply about bluffing. I define bluffing more a granular hand level tactical ploy whereas what we are talking about here is more in the realm of strategy.
Your goal is to force them to think that the risk of their potential gain in playing in a way that might beat you is too risky to justify. Make them fold out or make errors and/or if they do go through with it and win a hand the price they pay is to give you information on their playing style while all they get is fearful knowledge of your unpredictable playing style. Lets look at some examples of this in action.
If you have A-A and the Flop comes 9-8-3, if you bet and you get a call, you expect your opponent to have paired one of his hole cards. Your opponent may also have a Straight draw with J-10 or 7-6. In the first case, you can afford to reach showdown because your opponent is also willing to reach showdown, but is unwilling to raise or call raises, so you play semi-aggressively; check-call or value-bet. In the second case, your hand may be unplayable if your opponent hits a Five or a Queen later. In this situation you have to play your Aces more aggressively than in the first case.
How is this?
If the opposition has nothing why would you play stronger? Exactly – because your opponent doesn’t have something. In case one, the opposition has “something”, but it isn’t good enough to beat yours. A few value bets are a good idea as he might fold if you bet too strong. In case 2, your strong play has the aim of forcing him or her to remain in a state of nothingness. Should he or she get the 5 or Q (or Flush card), your nice Aces become unplayable should they play back strong later.
Make your opponents pay for their draws. Usually they are unwilling to pay; if you check, they check too. If you bet, they call. So: if you think your opponent is drawing, don’t check, and bet massively. Make the pot odds turn against their favor.
If they decide to call your bet, it’s time to be careful. If they suddenly take the lead during the later rounds by betting or by raising you, you have to think twice whether they are really on a draw or not during the Flop. But if they check, take the lead again. Perhaps they are still on a draw, and if they have hit it or not, they’ll remind you with their sudden and swift but all-too-readable actions, and you can fold your Aces without much remorse.
In the river, if no Straight or Flush-possible cards fall, you should bet again. Avoid showing your hand as much as possible. Your opponent can’t call here – and will fold. If you show your hand then your opponent will get a hint as to what your playing style is. So make your opponent pay for this information as well.
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