Super Texas Holdem
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Hold'em is a very difficult game. As everyone's favorite WPT announcer Mike Sexton always says, it takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master.
Truer words were never spoken.
Most beginner poker players play far too many hands and take them too far when they start to play Hold'em.
One of the first things you learn when you decide to become a winning player is to play tight - that is, to play fewer hands.
You do this because when you play only quality starting hands, it makes your play on later streets much easier.
How to Win at Poker
Playing tight is absolutely fundamental when learning to play winning poker. I say winning poker because everyone knows how to play poker but few know how to playwinning poker.
Your initial decision whether to continue with a hand or not will be made before the flop. Unlike on the flop and turn, which you might only find yourself playing once or twice an orbit, you're making pre-flop decisions every single hand you play.
If you play too loose pre-flop, you're costing yourself money every time you play a hand you shouldn't. Thus it's imperative the first strategy you master is playing tight before the flop.
Play Only the Best Hands Before the Flop
Before the flop you should be playing only the very best of starting hands.
You should look for hands that are already monsters - AA, KK, QQ, etc. Play top-pair hands - i.e. ones that make top pair and when they do, do so with a good kicker.
For example: A-K, A-Q, K-Q, etc. You can also play quality speculative hands, hands that flop big and take down big pots - e.g. T-9s, 8-9s, small pocket pairs, etc.
All other hands should be avoided like the plague. Not only do they show a negative expectation (see 'EV explained'), they're also very difficult to play after the flop.
A hand like K-5s may look good, being a king and suited, but appearances are deceiving here. This is in fact a very weak hand.
When it pairs its five, the five is seldom the top pair on the flop. When it pairs its king, it only has a five kicker and will often find itself outkicked at showdown.
That's the nature of this hand and similar ones: they make poker a guessing game. You can never be sure of where you stand. They also leave you no possibility of making a straight.
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Further Reading:
Don't Be Fooled by the Flush!
You may think that all of this is overcome by the hand's ability to make a flush. No such luck. Being suited only adds 2% to its overall likelihood of winning.
Generally speaking, if you would fold a hand offsuit, you should probably fold it suited.
Flushes don't come around nearly often enough to make up for the downfalls of a poor starting hand. So stop limping weak hands just because they're suited.
Contrast that with a hand like A-K. When A-K hits the flop you make top pair with the best kicker. You're never going to be outkicked at showdown.
You can play this hand confidently - you know where you stand in the hand. 'Guessing' is minimized.
Further Reading:
When You Hit You Know Where You Stand
This is why playing excellent starting hands make the later streets easier. When you hit you know where you stand. You have a quality hand that can see a showdown.
You're rarely going to find yourself outkicked. If you only play hands that show a positive expectation pre-flop, the rest of your game will fall into place.
Your good pre-flop hands are going to make good post-flop hands, and you'll find your decisions on later streets getting easier and easier the more trash hands you eliminate from your pre-flop holdings.
An extreme example of tight play would be if you decided to only play aces, kings and queens and you would fold everything else.
This would make your play at the flop and after it very easy. There would be literally no guessing game.
If you held an overpair you would bet; if not, you'd slow down. Marginal decisions would be eliminated. Everything would be black and white.
This style, of course, is highly exploitable and would never be profitable; it's merely an example of how playing tight makes things easier on the later streets.
I would never advise only playing aces and kings, but that would be a better strategy than playing every hand that comes your way.
Further Reading:
The Best Beginner Poker Strategy
Obviously the best strategy is somewhere in the middle. Fold your weak hands but play your strong hands aggressively.
As an amateur and a student of the game you are guaranteed to make multiple mistakes in every session. And every time you make a mistake at a No-Limit Hold'em table you run the risk of going broke.
The more marginal hands you play, the more difficult your decisions will be. And that means the more mistakes you will make. The more mistakes you make, the more often you're going to find yourself getting stacked.
If you start out only with quality holdings, you'll make the rest of your decisions easier.
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Do you know of an actual brick-and-mortar or online placement for this game? I see that the Wizard did a Cutting Edge video for it but it's of the introductory, showcase type...I see your point about the HVG strategy page. It's actually fairly extensive but even the writer admits to being unsure of what to do in certain situations. Interesting game though, in that you get to bet twice and the larger 2x-5x bet is made after the flop. (The cost being that both the blind AND the ante need a straight or better to pay.) You will, however, be putting a lot of chips down so you'll need a big bankroll to weather the bad runs. Also, evidently, there's no side bet.
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ZCore13
I find it hard to believe that you shouldn't fold 7-2 off-suit. I question the listed strategy.
ZCore13
I've been playing the demo and wondering the same thing.
Handwave Analysis
You have 2 units in the ante and blind bet. So, pre-flop with a bad hand, you should make a one unit bet (versus fold) if your EV > -2.0.
Based on standard Texas Hold'em calculators, the chance of a 7-2o beating a single random hand is something like 0.321 -and losing is about 0.623 and ties are about 5.6%
So, in this game you must bet at least 3 units to get to showdown - 1X on pre-flop and 2X on post-flop. Assuming your 7-2o wins with a hand that is less than a straight:
- you will lose 5 units with a probability of 0.623 and win 3 units with a probability of 0.37 which implies an EV of -2.15. Obviously, that's a worse expectation that simply folding, with the EV = -2.0.
Thus, if it is indeed correct to not fold a 7-2o it must be because the 3-card flop gives you a lot of actionable information -so much information that it improves your EV by > 0.15.
- With a very good flop that gives you trips or two pair or a flush draw, your post-flop bet will be 5X rather than 2X.
- Even with a flop like 7-4-3, giving you top pair, you will probably bet 5X post-flop. (not sure about that.)
- With a very bad flop, say three cards that are 10 or higher or three suited cards in a suit that you don't have in your hand, your post-flop decision will be to FOLD. This will improve your EV versus the scenario of betting 2X post-flop in these bad circumstances.
Also, just as in video poker, it is always possible that you make a very good winning hand - a straight, flush, boat, quads, straight flush and get significant bonuses from the pay table. However, with a 7-2o I think that happens rarely enough that it doesn't improve your EV much - probably by less than 0.05.
Overall, I suspect that betting 1X preflop on 7-2o probably does have an EV slightly better than -2.0.*********************
By the way, standardly 3-2o is worse than 7-2o versus one random hand. It wins only 30.2% of the time and loses 63.4% of the time, for a showdown EV in this game of about -2.26 (ignoring winning hands that are straights or higher.) However, you will make more straights with a 3-2o so I don't know whether it is truly worse than 7-2o.
1. Max-Bet (5x) the flop if you catch any piece of the flop (bottom pair or better) or with a big draw. Big draws include:
Any flush draw
An open-ended straight draw J-T-9-8 or higher
Any gutshot Broadway draw, including JT on an A-K-x flop
You have a flush draw if you have 7s-2h and the flop comes Qh-Jh-8h, but your expectations are:
Win 29.7%
Lose 60.6%
Tie 9.7%
That is NOT the type of hand you want to max-bet 5X on!
Exceptions to the posted strategy (above) for bet 5X
1. If you have a flush draw (with no pair and no straight draw) but contribute only one suited card to the flush draw:
- in general, your suited card must be 10 or higher to max-bet 5X, otherwise bet 2X.
2. If you have a 2-way straight draw but contribute only one card to the straight draw, and you other card is an undercard to the straight draw cards
- your straight draw must be KQJT to max-bet 5, otherwise bet 2X.
Example: You have Qh 4s and the flop is Js-Td-9c: You should bet 2X.
3. Bet 2x with the pocket pairs 2-2, 3-3, or 4-4 when you have no straight or flush draw and the 3 flop cards are all higher than your pair.
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ZCore13
As a side note, I do like all 3 versions of their games. I think the Pai Gow is my favorite, but would play any of the 3 if was somewhere they were installed.
ZCore13
Yeah, I'm pretty impressed with the innovations. Blackjack without hitting? Mid-hand PGP betting? Cool stuff. I hope they get a trial run somewhere.