How to Play previews

 How to Play previews in poker on Full tilt poker - Part 1

Some poker players always "overlook" flopping a monster when they get heads up in a tourney. In a FL game, you are in a NL house and have a prop bet, the blinds are TAG and you have $800 chips. After the blinds are paid, the action starts with the small blind and he either comes out raising or folding. You are on the button with your J-8 suited. You have $2,200. Everyone folds to the big blind who comes out with a $2,400 raise. Now is where you are at in the hand. You are sitting on the button with A-6 off suit. You have not fundraised in position and your opponent has raised here a third of the pot. The small blind folds, but the big blind has a great opportunity here to steal the blind.

When the big blind raises, you have to make a decision. You are not going to let your big blind bully the blinds and you will call where you think you can take the blind away from your opponent. Remember, your opponent who has raised in position has a net advantage of turning a profit edge to his advantage whenever you check the flop. Your decision is very simple. You call the flop and turn.

Now, things can change and aces and face cards start dropping from the sky. The big blind raises to $2,800. Everyone folds to you in position. You have $4,000. You might be thinking, although the pot is $2,800, you aren't shorting much just yet. You could call the $2,800 bet, but your opponent could also have a raise behind the large raiser. You need to call the flop and then you can re-raise or possible take down the pot if your opponent calls you.

Then the flop comes J-7-4. Your opponent bets $2,400. You are thinking, he must have a good hand. Why? Because he has called you pre-flop and you like your hand. You don't like his hand. You fold.

Your opponent mostly called pre-flop, but not post flop. He will continue to call in position and you will re-raise in position. Hopefully you will pick up a good สล็อต hand and have some sort of hand to make a play post flop. You don't always make a play for the blind. Sometimes it works to your advantage. Pre-flop, it could lead to a free card where you will have position on your opponent, which in this case is a hand with some potential.

In position, it is one of the easiest hands to play. You can come over the top with a standard continuation bet and you are nearly guaranteed to steal the blind. In position, it is very important to be aggressive. You don't want to curb this behavior by checking. You want to steal the blind! A fun note to end on, when your chip stack is dwindling, you need to pretend to have a very tight table image (like a harmless pose) until your table image diversity increases. Then you can re-raise with any two cards. People will think you are so tight you can't play a hand in poker land, when really you're just playing very strong hands.

Position is everything in no limit poker tournaments. Don't be a chump, c-betting a wide range of hands from an un-exploited position. Let your opponents make mistakes and be lead into your traps.