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Examples of How Not To Be a Sucker at Poker

• 31.06.2025 1:35 pm
• Helen
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It has been found that low to mid stakes poker players have one problem, they allow their creativity to get in the way of them making profits.

While creativity is not a bad thing, it is important that you only use it when your opponents have mastered the art of your game. This is to say, you need to use it only when you have played numerous hands with the same opponents and you know they have been keen and will remember all the hands you have played.

In the article on how to avoid sucking at poker, the stop bluffing edition, this idea is explained in details so there is no need in repeating what you probably already know. What you will see here, are examples of how you can use this concept in a game of poker.

The first scenario

In this part, you will see how trying to be creative in a live $1/$2 game on the button can cost you.

In this particular table there is a loose-aggressive player who acts as the hero on the table. He is constantly placing bets and raising and even making show downs for uncertain hands. He is he bluff player. This hero has a stack of say, $500.

On the same table, there is player number two who is a lady who is constantly calling the bets of the hero player and is constantly assuming that the hero is bluffing. During the last four hands, she has raised three of them and from them she got on the flop or pre flop folds.

In early position, this lady player makes a raise to $15. The players on her left and the player on the hero's right both call.

The lady then says "you all do not believe me!" just before the hero player looks down and calls with . The following player, an old man calls, and another player calls too.

There is a flop of . The lady goes ahead and places a bet of $35 and the guy on the right of the hero calls followed by the call form the hero and the old man too.

A turn of comes

The dude on the right hand side of the hero checks after the lady checks. The hero places a bet of $130; the old man contemplates and calls for his last $76.

There is an insta-call from the lady as the guy seated to the right of the hero folds.

Then comes the river

The lady checks and so does the hero afterwards. The guy seated on the left side of the hero shouts "send it all" and reveals  straight

By now it is evident that all that could have possibly gone wrong already did in this particular hand. It so turns out that the lady player held a while the hero character held a

In the end the hero ended up loosing close to $100 on this hand because he refrained from playing ABC poker. If these hero had instead 3bet pre flop, and the lady would have 4bet.

From this outcome, the queens would have folded, the hero would have ship it all in then the lady would have to call. In this case, the hero would have ended up with a pot worth $1,000 instead of loosing $100.

The second scenario

You are taking part in an online full ring game of $0.50/$1. You are playing normal TAG poker and are currently holding $120 in stacks. You are dealt as you are seating on the button.

There is a player in middle position with $245 in stacks and he puts in a raise to $4. You head to the flop after calling on button.

Then comes the flop . You are very sure you are ahead of your opponent as you just middle set flopped. The opponent is very cautious and would never raise anything that May straight flop.

The opponent places a bet of 47 and you call.

Then comes the turn

The opponent then places a bet of $18 and once again, you call

Then comes the river

The opponent checks and so do you. The opponents turns over two pair . This means that your set wins you the pot of $58.

As much as you won the pot, you still lost $182 because you tried to be fancy and creative. You also put yourself at the risk of getting rocked by either a flush or straight.

On the other hand, the opponent had a monster heads flop. The two of you were probably assuming the same things, which is the unlikelyness of your flopping a straight.  The opponent ends up putting you on a flush draw or on an overpair. Whichever way, it would have been hard for the opponent to escape the top two.

If you had played ABC poker where you pump the flop, you would have created a larger pot at the same time get rid of any chances that the opponent might draw on you. Playing a slow hand kept the pot small yet you hade a lot of equity consequently allowing the board to become too risky for value bets.

At the end if it, your creativity ended up costing you a lot of cash you would have otherwise bagged.

Here, you learn that poker is a game based on decisions not results. In the above scenarios, you have seen how creativity means money lost. The river hit the old man straight and the hero lost money.

It is advisable to always raise if you have pre flop aces and you are up against an opponent you figure has a big hand and will stack off on you at any time.

During the low to medium stake games, your opponent is vulnerable to mistakes and will not have time to try and figure out what you are doing.

You need to always stick to ABC poker when taking part in action pots; you will see the benefits in your long run results.