Uppin’ the Ante
Andrew wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
When you play any poker game, everyone knows you want to whittle down the field to heads up. Not only do you then only have to worry about only one other player and what there cards are, but your check call strategy can easily figure out how much you will need to put into the pot to see the river. This is easier in NL, because you can bet whatever you want. Having a 6-way hand to see the flop in NL is ridiculous, but not uncommon in limit hold ‘em.
What’s important, then, is the pre-flop betting. We’ve already dicussed that you can only bet or raise a specified amount in limit. Pretty easy. But my general rule is if you can’t raise, you shouldn’t be playing that hand. This is about aggressive play, and maybe even some lose aggressive if you have a good read on the table and [...]
Read the rest of this great post here