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Why you should watch the table before you sit down at a Texas Hold em table
When I first started playing Texas Hold Em in the online poker rooms I would just sit down at the table and start playing. I found myself calling alot of bets mainly because I didn’t know how the other player played. I wasn’t sure if it was a good player letting me bet into them or if it was just some donkey that calls anything.
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Being Too Cute In Holdem Will Cost You Money If You Don’t Know What You Are Doing
I thought this would be a good topic to rap about for my first post. It is something I see all too often, people trying to get too cute in limit holdem and they end up missing bets which ultimately cost them up to a couple hundred a night if your playing for example some 5-10 action. Playing limit holdem in comparison to no limit is a different game. You only have a certain amount of bets to get as many chips as possible where as in no limit holdem, you can always raise on the river and bust someone. However in limit games, I see it all too often, a player flops a set or some other mac hand and they slow play it. This can work a lot of the time but you really have to know the table and your opponents. If your playing with a bunch of fish then it is a great strategy. However, if you are playing against some solid players, it will cost you money.
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