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Fixing your Redline: Stop playing OOP

• 30.06.2025 7:28 pm
• Helen
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In our final article of redline series fixation, we are going to beat a dead horse:

You should not play out of position.

If you are going to play when not in position you are going to lose a lot of cash. The same case applies when it comes to winnings that are non-showdown.

If you play out of position it becomes a huge disadvantage to you. You need to take action without hardly any information and your rival gets the big bonus of seeing what you do before he gets to action.

For your redline it means that you will be guessing a lot.

You are going to peel using your second pairs and also your top pairs which are very weak and later you are going to fold to another action.

If you put your money in a pot and then fold it will result to redline cancer. 

A good example which happens most of the times

$1or $2 game online: effective stacks $200. You are in a huge blind with .

It is folded to the regular on the button who happens to make it $7.

When the small blind folds, you call. The flop comes . You then check and your opponent bets $12 into $15.

You call and the turn becomes . You then check and he lets out $28 into $39.

Here is your mistake.

You know very well that the is a barrel card. You also are aware of the fact that your opponent is going to second- barrel it with 100% of his range-since you are going to fold several times.

Playing out of position is the same as prop betting with a Huck seed. There is no shot.

So the only option you are left with is to fold or surrender 10BB, or call and believe that your opponent will shut down on the river.

If he happens to let out the river, you got to fold and you will be surrendering 23.5BB.

All the options are not good. Particularly if your opponent can let out several barrels.

Since your challenger is in position, he is charge of the hand.

He decides on if to check or bet, and he always makes the decision himself.

If you are in the lead, your opponent can fold, raise or even call. If you happen to check, he could also check or bet.

If your hands happen to be tied, he is in control completely. With the same hands recurring time and again, it is very simple to see you can have a lot of cash from out of position.

Even though it is very hard to keep away from playing OOP, you can make your OOP calling range tighter.

If you play fewer hands, you actually get to play much better hands pre-flop. If you play the better hands pre-flop, you will find yourself making better hands post-flop.

If you make the better hands pre-flop, your decisions will be easier and you will not have to check-fold on several occasions.

Your final result will be saving cash, and you will develop your winnings that are non-showdown.

And most prominently, you will develop your overall win-rate.