Odds of being dealt



Now take some time to think about what your looking at. What does they above chart tell you? Actually it's a wealth of information about your opponent's hand.

If you "limp" in with "suited connectors" and someone raises there's a reasonable chance they are holding a "pocket pair" or some combination of "over cards".

If someone in a later position re raises, you can almost always put them on a big "pocket pair" or at minimum Ace-King (this is unless they bluff often).

So based purely on your cards, what do you do here. The decision is easy, FOLD.

Remember we're only considering your cards here. This has nothing to do with pot odds, implied odds, position, etc., we will get into all those later in strategy. The absolute worse thing you can do here (based on just cards) is to chase the flush or straight and hope you get lucky.

Once you have folded watch the hand play out. What you will see quite often on both Party and Empire is players chasing hands. This is especially true if they have lost a big pot recently and are on tilt. Another very common mistake you will see people make is overplaying top pair with a weak kicker. This is similiar to the hand we went over on the home page. You will see people quite often overplaying a pair of Aces with a mid (7,8,9) kicker. Take advantage of this by only playing aggressive with top pair, top kicker and you should be able to make a nice addition to your bankroll.

This is also were you make your money and grow your bankroll. You should be taking advantage of the note functions on these sites and making notes on every player. If you see a player doing this over and over add him to your buddy list and look for him every time you log in. Remember though, most of the sites now allow you to change your screen name every so often. This makes it even more important to constantly update your notes on players.

We will get into table selection in strategy and this is a big part of it.