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Timing Is Everything

Understanding when to get aggressive and when to let go is

fundamental to this style of play. Let’s 💸 look at two examples that illustrate the

difference.

Example Hand 2

You are playing against loose, but not stupid, players and

your 💸 table image – for the ones that have been paying attention – is pretty good. You

haven’t pulled off any 💸 obscene bluffs and you don’t think anyone has any particular

reason to believe you’re betting with air.

You are holding J-J 💸 and your preflop raise

gets three callers, with the board falling A-9-6. You figure that there was a good

chance 💸 no one had an ace and bet again. Two players fold, leaving you and one

opponent.

The turn brings a 7 💸 and you bet again, hoping to charge your opponent for

chasing a draw and to try and prevent a medium 💸 pair from spiking two pair.

Your

opponent calls your turn bet and a 5 comes on the river. This puts you 💸 in a tight spot.

You have been playing aggressively, so do you fire a third barrel on the river?

If your

💸 answer is “no”, go and get a cookie and move to the front of the class.

Against a

calling station you 💸 can bet away as they will call with all sorts of hands and you are

likely to have them beat. 💸 But your opponent is a standard player and if they were on a

straight draw there’s a very good chance 💸 they just made it. If they have an ace,

there’s no way they’re going to fold. There is a slim 💸 chance they’re holding T-9 and

that you have missed a value bet on the river. However, as a rule of 💸 thumb, don’t bet

on the river unless you can:

get better hands to fold (no way on this board); or get

💸 worse hands to call

If you now bet and they check-raise, you will almost certainly have

to lay your hand down. 💸 Take the free showdown and see if you win. There is a good

chance you do not have the best 💸 hand here, so caution is the key.

Example Hand 3

You

are sat on the button and look down at A-K. One 💸 player has limped in, and you raise.

The big blind and the limper both call, and the flop comes K-8-3.

The 💸 big blind checks,

but the limper now bets into you. Neither player has shown any signs of being maniacs

or 💸 calling stations. So what do you do? Do you raise?

Once again, the answer is

“no”.

Raising this flop is not necessarily 💸 good. While it is likely that you have the

best hand at this stage, (barring your opponent holding a set 💸 or a hand like K-8, but

both are pretty unlikely), you won’t earn much profit by raising.

Let’s look at it

💸 another way. If you raise their flop bet, there are only a few hands they’ll call with

that don’t have 💸 you beat. They are more likely to check-raise the flop with something

like K-T and would normally just call a 💸 bet if they were holding something like 9-8. So

if you raise and they fold you have let them get 💸 away without making a mistake.

Making

a further bet on the turn is a worse mistake for them than folding to 💸 a raise on the

flop. Give them the chance to make that mistake. If they have nothing then you don’t

💸 lose all that much by not raising this flop anyway.

Thus the correct play would be to

just call, giving the 💸 big blind a chance to make a more expensive mistake. You can then

trap them on the turn with a 💸 raise.

What you should recognize in this hand is that

there are no profitable draws available on the board, and your 💸 hand is not very

vulnerable which makes raising less profitable. However, when holding a hand like 9-9,

on an 8-5-2 💸 board, you should definitely raise because almost the entire deck consists

of scare cards for you. You must learn to 💸 analyze the flop texture and see these

differences to time your aggression correctly.