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"lucky" when I'm a dog in a big pot and wind up winning it.
You'll have additional compensations for playing the aggressive way I
recommend. You'll be able to break a lot of players because you're in there
gambling all the time ... and, because of that, you'll get a lot of your real good
hands paid off. Tight players don't get their real good hands paid off because
they make a move so rarely that their hands are an "open book" whenever
they do. And they almost never change gears (start playing loose). But you'll
be out there betting, betting, betting all the time. Your opponents will see
you're an aggressive player. They'll know you're out there trying to pick up
all those pots ... so they'll sometimes give you a little loose action. And, since
you'll hold a few hands (you won't always be out there with the worst hand)
... you'll break one or two of them. After that, they'll be scared to get involved
with you.
So your style of play will be very deceiving it'll get all the other players
befuddled. They won't know whether you've really got a hand or not. They
won't know whether you're going to set them all in or not. Because they might
have to put all their money in the pot not knowing if they have the best hand
... they won't know what to do. And anytime you get your opponents in that
confused situation you'll have an advantage over them.
Of course, you don't play every hand aggressively. Occasionally you slow
down ... and sometimes you completely stop and throw your hand away.
You should never start out bluffing at a pot and keep bluffing at it without
an Out.
For example, whenever I raise the pot before the Flop., I'm going to bet after
the Flop about 90% of the time. So if the Flop comes completely ragged (one
that doesn't look like anyone can have much of it) ... I'm going to bet at the pot
and try to pick it up even if I don't have a piece of the Flop. But, if I get called
... I'm usually going to give it up unless I have some kind of an Out [even as
little as Third Button (a Pair made with the lowest card on the Flop) or an
inside Straight draw]. Sometimes, you can keep hammering on certain players
and drive them off even when you don't have an Out. But, you're usually
better off when you have some kind of escape hatch.
The reason I go ahead and put all. my money in on occasion when I know I've
probably got the worst hand deserves repeating since it's so important for you
to understand. I do it because I don't want somebody playing back at me and
trying to stop me from being the aggressor. If I allow that to happen ... it'll
cramp my style. I'll no longer be able to pick up all those pots when nobody
has a hand. And nobody's got anything a big percentage of the time.
Somebody's got to get the money that's left out there. I want it to be me.
An example will best show you what I'm talking about. Let's say I raised
before the Flop with a type of hand that's one of my favorites: small
connecting cards that are suited. I'm in the pot with one player who called
behind me. At this point, I put him on a couple of big cards or a medium Pair.
That's all right. It's what I want him to have. Now, here's what'll happen if the
following Turn comes up.
With that Flop, I'm going to lead right off and bet. If he plays back at me, I'm
now going to be quite sure he's got two Aces (or better). So, I'm about a 9 to 5
dog. The pot (odds) will compensate a little bit for that price ... but it won't be
laying me enough to put the rest of my money in. Yet, I'll go ahead and get it
all in there because I don't want that same guy, who might be a pretty good
player, taking a Jack Ten and making that same play when I don't have
anything. To let his play succeed, I have to throw my hand away and give
him the pot. Because I want the pot ... I can't let him succeed. I want him to
fear me. I want him to have the opinion I'm going to defend the money I put
out there. I don't want him to have any doubts. So I go ahead and put the rest
of my money in.
In making that play on the Flop, there's a good chance I can win the pot right
there. Because I'm known to play any reasonable hand (and some
"unreasonable" hands in a short handed high ante game) ... I've really made it
tough on him. I could've flopped a Set (of Trips), Two Pair or even the
Straight. I've put him on the defensive ... and he's got a lot of guessing to do.
If he decides to call me ... it's not all that bad because I've got an Out. If I make
my Straight, I'm going to break him. And if I draw out on him ... it appears
like I got lucky again. Well, I did ... and I didn't. When I moved in on him, I
was gambling to pick up the pot. When I didn't succeed because of his call ...
you might say I got unlucky. What's more ... I am supposed to make my
draws once in a while. In fact, in that specific situation I'll draw out more than
one third of the time (by making my Straight or back dooring Two Pair or
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