Saturday, March 21, 2009

Call and Defence

By Padrig Czcibor

When playing in a No-Limit Hold 'em tournaments, I discovered many of situations where calling is the most excellent available option. A strategic call might keep you from being broke in a hand where you hold a great, but second class hand. Otherwise, a well-timed call might permit you to elevate a pot with a hand that wouldn't win at showdown.

The most annoying thing that you could ever do is to call over and over again. On the contrary, the frequent kind of thinking is that when you're playing a hand, you are to bet, raise or fold.

Imagine; you have a stack that is just about over the usual while you are actually in the middle stages of a tournament. Then a tight player who opens in early position made a raise of three times the big blind. After seeing your pocket tens, you made the choice not to fold tens. This might be an great hand as you've seen for awhile now. In this situation, most people would probably say or do is to try to throw a large re-raise. By carefully studying this example that I have shared with you, you are now able to see that the call is a prevailing but not taken to its full possibility as a means to win a game.

Consider that A-K is what you will most likely to be up against in this situation. Without doubt, the outcome of this situation will turn you to be committed over the pot and this requires not having any other alternative than to call if your opponent moves all-in. For sure you wouldn't want to give each and every one your chips. Remember that in this condition even though a lot of people will tell you that it all depends on the size of your stack, re-raising is still a very dangerous move.

You can fold to whichever bet, for a flop might come as A-Q-7. Knowing that the odds of your hand is best are very low. If you see a flop of 4-4-6 and that your opponent bets then you can think about a raise. Consider too, the possibility that your opponents might have A-K that would fold at that point. You can be certain that your tens are no good if your opponent moves all-in. Keep in mind that by calling the open-raise you will positively have a better chance to make a good choice after the flop.

You're sure to have a lot more to put into consideration if you just call the preflop raise if the hand plays out. Before you commit the size of your stack, you could have seen three of the five community cards. Your opponent might have reacted to the flop by force. It is sure to give you a big help by determining the strength of his hand is by his action, check or bet.

Now here is another situation, that I would like to share with you, that would give you big advantage by calling a pre-flop. Supposing, a player from middle position open-raises; while you are in a late position with pocket 7s. Let say that your opponent is actually holding a pocket jacks. With the flop as A-K-4, it's without a solution for the player with jacks to carry on with the hand. Your opponent will certainly check so don't lose sleep over it. You can bet representing the ace; the result will surely force a fold. By outplaying your opponent you will surely take home a big old pot.

Neophyte players would always be willing to come out and have their style or plays before the flop. Their goal is basically to get all-in and continue their re-raising marathon. Playing after the flop is the means to explore the many likely prospects for tough lay downs. It is by far good bluffs that may actually not be accessible on the pre-flop. This is actually a fun way to get the cash from your all your opponents so use these steps to get you rolling! - 16887

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