Ways to Defeat the Live Straddle


by jon don - Date: 2008-09-26 - Word Count: 306 Share This!

1) It is important not to reraise with less than premium hands.

2) If people are calling 4 times the last best with 45s they will lose in the long run to you

Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with getting bluffed out of pots from time to time. The player that never gets bluffed is a losing player. If you miss, no big deal, just lay the hand down.
You MUST be willing to put chips in when you believe your hand is ahead of your opponents' ranges. This is how we make $ in poker. We put more chips in ahead, and less when behind, than our opponents do. If we believe, after fairly evaluating the information on any street, that our hand is currently ahead of villain ranges we must GET CHIPS INTO THE POT!.

If we believe we are ahead and fail to build the pot for fear of suckouts we are playing weak poker, losing poker... just generally bad poker.
A good way to think about the straddle on your big blind is that you have posted the small blind in a higher stakes game where the stacks are shallower. In theory, that the stacks are shallower in relation to the straddle may be the main adjustment you have to make. In practice, though, many players who straddle act as though they have thrown much more than the straddle into the pot, so you can make larger value bets and should tend to bluff less.

Don't set your expectations too high. While a straddle is a clear mistake with 5 or more players, an expensive way to relieve boredom UTG, that doesn't mean you get much of the benefit when it is your big blind. The main beneficiaries are the players in late position who get to play for higher stakes in a profitable position.


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