Ive noticed a big hole in my game lately. As I am learning the finer point of NLHE, I am having trouble with play on the flop. Most of this occurs when I have a nice hand preflop...AK, AQ, AJ, KQ, KJ..etc....after I make my raise and get 1 or 2 callers or so is where I have trouble. When the board reads low cards or 678 or 345 kinds of flops, this is where the hand gets away from me. I try to be aggressive and sometimes lead out or reraise the others. So many times I find myself being reraised again. Sometimes when I am in mid to late positions, the lead out bettor fires out like $2 (i play mostly 10/25 cent) on a low flop, how should I respond? Any thoughts on this would be great.

this is IMO the crucial point of making money regularly at NL.

First you must have knowledge of whether your opponent is capable of making plays, and which ones.

Theres a lot of questions like
- 10-max/6-max
- how much are you raising pre flop?
- what position are you?
- stack sizes.
- have you been caught continuation betting.
- etc

maybe post a hand history and we'll take a look.

p.s. you're meant to miss the flop 2/3rds of the time.
Thus you cant really play many of the marginal hands from early position. Don't call raises with then offsuit unless its AK and perhaps AQ.

I play 10 max. If i raise preflop its baout 4x-5x the BB. What positions should you call with these hands more and in what positions should you make a reraise?

if you have aim, im me (astros11ss) and i will change your online poker life for the better.

astros11ss wrote:




really? how. i use msn not aim

KJ, KQ, and AJ are not really very good hands in a 10-handed game unless you're in late position. I'd probably limp with these hands in EP and MP and fold if there's a raise in front of me. If you want to be able to push hard with these kind of hands, maybe you should switch to 6-max.