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02-24-2005, 04:37 AM
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Straight
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: chicago
Posts: 119
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I have been playing about a year and a half but have just begun to study poker and im probobly a fish, though not a major one.
My Question:
Anyone have any tips on preflop raises?
I play in a home game usually twice weekly. The table plays fairly loose but no more so than most home games. I maintain a tight table image but some of the stronger players know i steal more than i would let on.
I try to keep my raises typically 5 times the big blind from early poistion and 3-4 times from late position, wether i am trying to steal or am raising with a legitimate hand. Is this the correct play, or should i vary my raise sizes? The blinds remain constant.
Thanks for help.
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Demiparadigm
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Varying your raises based on your cards is wrong. Any observant player would notice, and you would be giving away way too much information.
I rarely hear of someone varying their raises based on position. I find this interesting. I would be inclined to do the opposite though. In EP there are a lot of players to act behind you, so you may want to throw out a smaller raise and gwt information about the texture of the hands behind you. From late position, you already have this information, so a larger raise seems like a better idea. You will thin out the field (giving you a better chance of winning the hand) and you will have position on anyone who decides to call.
I always raise 3xBB regardless of what I am raising with (and when I say always, I mean usually. Everything depends on the situation.)
If I reraise, I will reraise whatever amount is in the pot, hoping to take it down right there ( I normally have a big pocket pair in this case, but I want people to "know" that I have a big pocket pair when I reraise, it can be useful later on a big steal.)
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RiverMonkey
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Flush
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 446
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Posting this in this thread as well just in case you don't come across it in the other.
Check out:
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_maga...550&m_id=65556
Good article on pre-flop betting strategies by Thomas Keller .. mostly related to tournament play.
However, he illustrates some interesting ideas related to varying your pre-flop bet amount based on position and how he wants his opponents to react to the bet.
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