Sunday, November 1, 2009

Limit Hold’em School: Raised Pots in Early Position in Full-Ring

Following on from the last article, I would like to discuss how to play against raises when you are in early position in a full-ring game. Now obviously if you are in early position then there are not many players to be heard from to your right. There will be only two players at most and probably only one player. If you have more than two players to your right then you are not in early position at all but middle position.

There can be subtle differences between certain seats and also depending on the actual game dynamics as well. Some positions in certain types of games play more like others, for example late position in a loose aggressive game could be a far more dangerous place to be than middle position in another game that was far more passive in nature.

But whenever there has been a raise from another player in early position and you are in early position yourself then you seriously need to respect this raise. Firstly your opponent is out of position and they also know that they are out of position as well but yet they have still made the raise.

Also what you have to remember is that the average mentality of a full-ring game player differs greatly to that of a six max or heads up player. When a player who has the option to choose any game or table that they wish in a large online card room chooses a full-ring game table over a six handed one, then this indicates something about not only their attitude to risk but also with regards to the pace at which they want to play poker as well.

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So when a player raises in the UTG (under the gun) or the UTG+1 seats then the number of hands that you will play will be small as you already know the relative strength of their hand. I would definitely re-raise wit AA-QQ. Some other types of hand can be played more flexibly. You can call with hands like JJ, TT and AKs, AK or you could also re-raise with them.

Much depends on the actual game dynamic as well and if raises are getting called then you can possibly call with lower pocket pairs like 99 through 77. But hands like AQ and AJ needed to be played carefully as they are often dominated in this position. An AQs should definitely be played but AJ is a far weaker hand as is KQ. So just keep in mind what your opponents are raising with in early position at this form of poker.


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