I’m letting you in on some advanced Texas Holdem secrets revealing the fundamentals of a solid preflop strategy. Don’t miss out on this one.
Playing advanced Texas Holdem doesn’t have to be hard. What many people think is the secret to a good preflop strategy is wrong. Sadly, it’s not as simple as ‘get dealt this card, bet this much’. However, it can be easy if you know these fundamentals and then continue to polish them.
Preflop Strategy Secrets For Advanced Texas Holdem Players
- Firstly, you need to understand all the poker hands. Not only the basics but all the hold card strengths. Learn their strengths, their weaknesses, why they are good and why they are bad. Consider checking out an ABC Texas Holdem Poker Strategy for info on this. Learn all of this info so you know it like clockwork!
- Now, this sets the scene for the major pre-flop components:
- your hand
- opponents hands
- table position
You should know how strong your hand is almost immediately because you have completed step 1 diligently. Now, you cannot really know your opponents hands but you can guess. You’ll have to learn how to figure this out based on how they act, their style, how they bet etc. The first part is guessing what hand they have and the second is fitting that into the hand-strength chart so you know how well you think they are doing.
The next thing to factor in is table position. You will need progressively better hands the earlier and earlier you are to bet. You can use worse and worse hole cards the later and later you are down the table. The same goes for your opponents.
Extreme example: say you have pocket kings and your opponent has pocket kings. You are early position he is late. He is ‘stronger’ then you even though you have the same cards because he has the benefit of seeing how you will play before he makes his decision. (Kind of a bad example cause if you both had pocket kings they wouldn’t be that strong. Plus this wouldn’t really happen anyway. But it makes the point.)
- An additional and very important component that will ‘color’ all of the above is money! Your stack size, your opponents stack size, the size of the big blind, the sizes of all your stacks in relation to the big blind, if there are any standard table bets etc. You’ll have to think about all of this and incorporate it into your preflop strategy.
Most of advanced Texas Holdem is played preflop. It’s much more valuable to you to focus on preflop strategy than it is for say, river play strategy. You will be playing preflop more than anything else so it pays to focus on this area. That’s why the really advanced Texas Holdem players master this critical area first before moving onto the others.
To Your Luck And Skill,
Alex Bannon
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