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On getting paid off
There's been a couple ghey posts like ZOMG I have a big hand deep how do I get stacks in?
Making big hands will often give you a nice upswing but it's not the cause of real poker profit.
Leaning on weak players, reading hands and playing hands against poor players is.
I crush weak players by getting them to take 2-3 way flops against me with weak hands and/or poor position. Then I apply pressure to hit a flop. If I think they're peeling light, I confront them with a second barrel for an uncomfortable sum of money. If I think they're trapping or give too much action I shut it down and get a lot of free cards. If they play back at me, I'll ship it in with any good piece of equity.
Against stronger players, reading hands, body language, stuckiness, winning the fight to isolate the fish, etc. is more important. If you can figure out what they have sometimes, you will probably have an edge or at least be a little less worse off.
Big hands happen and when they do I almost always just play them fast and hope the other guy caught something or will pick the wrong time to go with a hand. I certailnly want them wondering if I really have it or I'm just bluffing. The guys I play with regularly know I play my good hands fast because they've seen me stack lots of players like that (probably themselves included) and consider me very dangerous because of that.
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