Advanced Strategy Low Hands
Assuming that the game you are in is very loose, you will want to play any four cards, suited up if possible, that include an ace-deuce or an ace-trey.
The exception is when many players already have entered the pot.
In this case, you often will get quartered with these hands, unless you are against very bad players.
In multiway pots, you will want to have a third low card, such as an ace-deuce-trey or an ace-deuce-four, or four low cards with the ace in your hand.
A lot of the low hands will get counterfeited by one of your low cards coming out on fourth or fifth street.
You will be putting your money in with a cinch, yet if one of the cards that counterfeits your hand appears on a later street, you will get nothing from the pot.
In other words, having a third low card, even if it is not that good, is very important in big multiway poker pots confrontations.
Since many players will be going for low hands, you need that additional out.
With tremendous low hands, such as three or four low cards that also might be suited up, you don’t mind putting in more money early, because much of the time you will flop a playable hand.
Also, if a lot of money goes in early, you probably will still take a card off to see fourth street.
One reason that you go to fourth street when the flop is not very favorable is that if higher cards come early, there rarely will be more than one high hand with strength.
Thus the pot won’t get jammed.
On the other hand, if low cards come, the high hand is the one that gets jammed in.
This is because there are usually a couple of online poker players drawing at the cinch low with possible straight or flush draws to go with it.
Although it is not always the case, a general rule is: jammed pots when low cards flop usually mean several low draws.
Ace-deuce is not automatically a giant hand and the kind of hand to wait for.
It plays better in a low-stakes game, where there are almost always players who consistently draw at the third and fourth (or even worse )low hands.
However, as the game progresses in stakes, players seldom draw at non-nut low hands, unless they have a high hand working with it or unless there is a “live-one” in the pot limit .
Introduction / General Concepts / Position / Low Hands / High Hands / Your Starting Hand / Starting With Big Pairs / When You Are First In / How To Play Your Hand / Play on the Flop / When Your Have the Best Hand / Afterthought
