Educational Toys Guide
Learn To Play Poker Free And Master Moving All-In At Poker
In Children Toys of Advisor (September 4, 2010 5:22 pm)
Moving all-in is the most serious of all manoeuvres in poke, be it free on the web poker or high stakes games.
The accepted wisdom is that you should only move all-in with hands that have a opportunity to beat the most common all-in Massive Hands like AK and AQ.
It is because these are the hands also most willing to call. Which hands, then, are we ready to put our tournament life on? Pocket pairs come to mind. So does A-K (or A-Q or even K-Q suited or K-J suited if you’re running out of chips)
But someone does it differently. I would like to add that here; player B is an impatient, rowdy player who is familiar to us TV poker fans.
BLINDS 12k/24k
A has Ad-Kd raises 75k
A’s raise is just standard for A-K suited, though it is slightly stronger (the average preflop raise is about 2.5x the big blind, but this raise is a little more than thrice). But look at B’s move, which may be less standard:
B has 10c-5c moves all-in 544k
What about that: a 10-5? With about 22 large blinds left, which is relatively a short-stack (but not so short), B moves all-in. However with a 10-5? B can wait for slightly superior hands than this.
Now let us try to justify the 10-5 in this situation. If B did it with a small pair, he is a slight favourite (about 55-45). If with A-x (with x smaller than a King), he’s a significant underdog (about 75-25).
With any 2 cards apart from A or K he much less the underdog (approx. 66-34).
So the win-rate of 10-5 against A-K (here B deciding that A’s hand was A-K or similar was quite a gamble; if he’s up against A-A he’s a massive underdog, about 85-15) is just the average of the win rate of a pocket pair against A-K and the win rate of A-x against A-K, and therefore not so bad.
Moreover, with 10c-5c B has two live cards, compared with A-x, where x is the only live card. Moreover, B may dislike having 22 huge blinds dwindle to, state, 15 or 14 later, so he decides to put his heart and soul into this hand. Who is this player, anyway? “I’ve got a 10-5, boys and girls.” You heard right, the garrulous Mike Matusow! “The Mouth!”
A calls 469k (Pot 1.124m)
Now let us see how “The Mouth” will fare against all odds.
FLOP: Js-7c-5s
“Which is a Flop!” A Five fell, pairing Matusow!
TURN: Js-7c-5s-8d
RIVER: Js-7c-5s-8d-6d
Moving all-in can end up being one of the most hazardous moments in poker. Even in free on the internet poker it can also be the most thrilling, anyway. The all-in recharged Matusow’s stack to 45 big blinds.
This sort of unusual play can be exploited forever in any case. When Matusow believed that A has A-K or similar, he’s gambling.
While most will run a strategy where they will call with pocket pairs I doubt in this case that A will call with anything less than 10-10.
Against AA, KK or a higher pair the 10-5 will only win approximately 15%. With 10-10 to 5-5 it’s approx. 25% and with 4-4 to 2-2, just about a coin flip.
Summary of the All In Guide
Take the time to read and learn the principles behind this article. Look to learn the principles behind what’s going on in this particular example and think of ways to put these lessons into your individual play.
Poker, while not so difficult to learn if very hard to make a living from, or, indeed, not lose money at most of the time!
But if (and when) you learn to really play online poker well then you’ll make some great money. Why?
Simply that the vast majority of players you come up against never get to what can be termed a good level.
So if you can learn to play above average then it is not hard to make some good money. You certainly don’t need to play WSOP levels.
The fact that most players are at such a low skill will mean that whenever you hunt/play them on free online poker sites or low stakes sites you’ll be able to clean up.
To learn to play poker free go see the NoPayPOKER blog, the free poker lessons there cover all levels from newbie to advanced, plus, the site itself as a free on the internet poker site is the perfect place to practice what you learn.
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