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Texas Holdem is a game where you should pick and choose your battles wisely. Playing every hand will of course lead to winning more pots. But in between those wins will be
more losses as well. Playing the right hands, at the right time will leave you with more chips in your stack.
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That leads us to seat position. Timing is everything in some cases, and in poker it certainly counts for something. While some cards are playable under some circumstances,
they aren't under others. Seat position is a key part of the circumstances that dictate whether you should play a hand, or wait for a better opportunity to present itself.
Professional poker players can sense what their opponents have in their hands. When just beginning you may not be able to read your opponents with that level of skill, but if you
can take a moment to read the cards on the board, you can tell with certainty what they do not have. Reading the board lets you know what hands are possible, and from there
you can use other information from your opponents to gauge what hands are probable. And act accordingly.
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Poker Strategy
- Short-handed considerations
When playing short-handed (at a table with fewer than normal players), players must loosen up their play (play more hands) for several reasons:
* There is less likelihood of another player having a strong hand because there are fewer players.
* Each player's share of the forced bets increases because there are fewer players contributing to the forced bets, thus waiting for premium hands becomes more
expensive.
This type of situation comes up most often in tournament style play. In a cash game, the adjustments are very similar, but not quite as drastic as the table can ask for
what is known as a 'rake break.' A rake break is when the floor-man, who represents the casino, agrees to take a smaller portion than usual for the hand. For example
a random casino might normally receive 10% of the pot up to 5 dollars for a 'rake.' In this case the table would only owe 10% up to 3 dollars until there are a sufficient
number of players again.
Structure considerations
The blinds and antes and limit structure of the game has a significant influence on poker strategy. For example, it is easier to manipulate pot odds in no-limit and
pot-limit games than in limit games. In tournaments, as the size of the forced bets relative to the chip stacks grows, pressure is placed on players to play pots to
avoid being anted/blinded away.[4]
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Often players will find themselves in need of a card to complete their hand. These hands are known as drawing hands. When on a drawing hand, it's nice to know what the odds
of your ship actually coming in are. Armed with those odds, you're better able to play your hand correctly. So, see the drawing odds page for a chart that will tell you the odds of
completing your gutshot straight, flush, or three-of-a-kind. Information is power at the table, and this information is part of the basic skills that winning poker players possess.
Related to drawing odds is the concept of pot odds. When you know you're waiting on a card to complete your hand, and there's a bet before you, you'd like to know if calling
that bet is a good idea or a bad idea. If you're familiar with the concept of pot-odds, you'd be informed enough to make that decision. When you're ready to have that kind of
power at the tables, read the primer on pot odds.
Poker Play
- Anaconda ("Pass the trash")
Seven cards are dealt to each player. Before the first betting round, each player examines his hand, and removes exactly three cards from his hand and places
them on the table to his left. After each person has thus discarded, he picks up the cards discarded by his right-hand neighbor and places them in his hand
(thus, each player will have given three cards to his left-hand neighbor). It is important that each player discard before looking at the cards he is to receive. After
the first pass, there is a betting round. Then a second pass occurs, each player passing two cards to his right. A second betting round is followed by a third pass,
each player passing one card to his left. Finally, a fourth betting round and a showdown, in which the player with the best five-card high hand he can make out of the
seven in his hand wins the pot.
In some casual games, the showdown is replaced by a rollout phase, as described above in "Shotgun". This makes a total of eight betting rounds in the game,
which generally destroys any chance for skillful play in the later rounds.
Ad hoc variants
Any of the above games can be modified in many ways upon player whim, by designating additional wild cards, betting rounds, more or fewer cards, altered hand
values, and any other change agreed upon by all players prior to each deal. You can announce such a game by using the name of an existing game and specifying
the variations, for example "Three-card Triple-draw California lowball, Kings wild" (a surprisingly good game heads up). Many times this will result in a game that
does not play well, but occasionally will produce a game that is well-suited to a particular group of players. Even if it doesn't, such games can be used sparingly
to enliven an otherwise serious game.
Here are some general guidelines:
* If you want to designate some normal suited cards as wild, choose cards that would otherwise be bad for the game being played. For example, deuces wild
for high-hand games, kings wild for lowball, 9-spots wild for high-low split (where an 8-high or lower is necessary to win low).
* High-low split games play best with more than four players.
* When playing high-low split, it is necessary to have either a declaration phase or a qualifier (but not both). The most common form is 8-high or better to qualify
low, but also common is any pair/no pair (that is, a pair or better is required to win high, and no pair or better low is required to win low), and 9-high for low.
* Designating more than four wild cards (or possibly six) will result in considerable confusion and many ties.
* Two to five betting rounds makes a good game. One round or more than five rounds reduces the amount of skill involved.
* Sometimes there is no betting round before the draw; players pick up their cards, discard and draw, and then the betting starts.
* Giving each player more than eight or nine cards usually makes a bad game. (Note that in Anaconda, each player will have seen up to thirteen cards!) **
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