Free Online Poker Guide To How Exactly To Play A Big Hand Preflop

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Where do you turn with a big hand preflop if you have a big stack, like K-K? And how may the other players react? Regardless of if you simply play free poker online for pennies or are at the ultimate table in WSOP this really is a core situation that you must know how to exploit to the full.

For our example we will look at an illustration from a global Series of Poker game:

BLINDS 40, 000/80, 000



A has As-10c moves all-in (Pot 1 ) 296m)


B has K-K reraises to 5m (Pot 6. 296m)


B has two options here. They can just call and then await someone to move all-in after him, but that would make him do some thinking...

Could it be A-A? Or Q-Q? If it absolutely was Q-Q there's a slight chance he might fold K-K, and regret it. But a big reraise can drive Q-Q or lower out, like what happened to another player:

C has Jd-Jc

(C's comments on B's hand were: "Why did you make it so much?... You prefer your hand that much? ")

If C calls, it's for all of his chips.

C may genuinely believe that B has A-K, but there are two all-ins before him, and one of them may be A-X (and with A-X he is still not safe) or a pair, but a suspiciously heavy raise to about 60 times the big blind is almost always a signal for A-A or K-K. So C could wait for an improved opportunity than now.

C folds (Pot 2. 39m)

C's fold was brilliant, after the reraise, but it it's still brilliant even if B did not reraise. B may possibly bet again on the Flop and C may well not continue and just release the chips.

B's reraise will work if he has A-A or K-K, but I doubt it if he will do the same with A-K or Q-Q, but it might have the same effect of making C fold. As for A, why don't we wish for his good health. B won the hand later.

In summary

It takes time to learn how to play poker online even free online poker or permainan domino qiu qiu offline at a level above the unthinking, uneducated "chip flinging" seen at many tables. Understanding how to play different hand scenarios is just one of the facets of the game you need to perfect and ones such as big hands preflop are crucial. Hopefully this has helped you, and remember, when you learn this you will automatically become a cut above average as most players don't bother!