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Ideas for the loose, multiway game

Think clearly.
Play the whole hand.

Holdem strategy, grounded in decisions.
For beginning and intermediate players in small-stakes games.

Latest study / 01LIMIT HOLDEM

The
one-bet
trap.

What a flop call can really cost

One flop bet can turn into more. A six-way simulation study shows how raises change the cost of a call—and why improving your hand does not always mean winning the pot.

Your hand

8♥♥7♥♥

The flop

9♥♥5♦♦K♠♠

Six players · 13 small bets in the pot · one small bet to call

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Six players. One decision.Simulation ≠ a prediction of real-table profit.

Where to begin

Get the fundamentals.
Then ask better questions.

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Table selection

The first decision happens before the cards are dealt.

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Starting hands

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Read the whole board

Reading the board

Make sense of the cards everyone can use.

From the archive

Big Pot,
Small Flush Draw.

Different draws. The same large pot. Another useful lens on the price of continuing.

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Strategy that stays useful.

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