Even before the flop, you sometimes must make plays like reraising to knock out players behind you so that you are last to act.
It is very advantageous to have the last position. It also is often good to be first to act. Problems can occur when you are in the middle.
The idea is to playing hands that can develop into two-way hands, where you can either scoop or three quarter an opponent.
For example, suppose you have You may wish to raise, because you don’t want someone holding a hand like to also play in a multiway pot.
Notice that this player can make a higher straight than you can make, plus you can getting quartered by tying for the low with some other player.
Again, there is a lot more to this game than just playing technically correct.
The hands that tend to do well are those containing ace-deuce and ace-deuce-trey.
Having a suited card with the ace is also beneficial. In a lot of spots, four high cards do well, because if this hand wins, there probably will not be a low.
Three big cards that include an ace, plus a deuce or a trey, are also good hands.
But if the other low card with the ace is not a deuce or a trey, you should throw the hand away.
For example,almost always should be discarded.
This hand might become playable only if your opponents are playing very poorly and you can see the flop for one bet, or if you are in a very late position and no one has raised.
Also, note that when two low cards hit the board, all high hands go way down in value.
Assuming that you win the high, you are now likely to split the pot if another low card comes.
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