Calling is one of the most underestimated and incorrectly executed moves in both free poker games and cash Texas Hold em poker games.
Players who call too often are looked down on and named "calling stations", though the fact is it's not because they call that they lose their chips so often. The lose because they do not call at the right times and places.
During this free poker online article, we'll explain to you by way of example the way you use calling in poker correctly.
Are there right reasons for calling?
The reasons for calling often crossover with those used by more aggressive players for betting. Here are some example situations where you may use the poker call.
- One example is, if you have A-K in a board of 10-3-K-7-8, when you are first to act, you bet; you don't check and call.
- You value-bet. However, when you are not first to act, what do you do if someone else bets?
- Do you raise? Here, good betting reasons are not so good raising reasons. As you still have a hand you don't raise but neither do you fold.
The rule now, for the above hand, is:
- If you're first to act, you bet.
- If you're not first to act, and someone bets, call an amount less than or equal to the amount you intend to bet should you be the first to act.
- When the amount is greater, you fold. This rule applies only when you've got a hand.
- Without a hand, like just Ace-high, you bet, however, you fold to a bet.
- Don't call with Ace-high (unless from curiosity).
Let’s try another hand.
You have 8-7 in a Flop of K-6-9. You can check-call, but you can also bet. Now, betting is considered the better option, because you can make your opponent fold; after all, your hand is incomplete.
- Should you check-call, however (or call a bet), you may send a message to your opponent that you're most likely on a draw, and then your opponent may keep bullying you later.
- Nevertheless, you want to complete a powerful hand, so you call.
- Just be sure you have the pot odds to call, however.
- If your opponent continues bullying you when you complete the Straight, you can raise.
Now, in another hand, you have A-6 in a Flop of 9-6-2.
- Since the flop comes small cards, anyone with big cards will fold to a bet.
- You can bet those 6's. Or you can call, especially if your opposing player ended the hand right there with A-Q.
- You could call, and later, if your opponent keeps working you with small bets, you may call each small bet, because your odds are still satisfactory.
- Furthermore, you may pair your kicker or your Six if you call.
Finally, if you have Q-Q in a Flop of Q-10-10, you've got your opponent dead.
If your opponent bets, and you raise, the chances are greater that your opponent will fold than not.
- This is because although your opponent might have A-Q, it is not likely as you know there are three Queens already out.
- Also an extra Ten is less likely for a similar reason.
- Your opponent might have K-J or A-K (for a useless Straight draw) or a Flush completer.
Give the opposing players openings to finish their hands, this way you hope to tempt more action from them. If your opponent completes the Straight or the Flush later, then you have the upper hand. So just call, and call, until everyone escalates.
This also applies if you feel your opponent has the spare Queen or Ten. You can let your opponent just bet and bet through to the river, where he thinks you might be calling as you just had a Queen or a small Pair, so at the river you may move your chips in.
Now, what's flawed with calling stations' calling beliefs?
- To start with: they call even with the pot odds against their favor. They normally chase inside Straight draws and so they lose their chips in the long run if they keep doing this.
- Secondly: they call big bets with small, but marginal, hands even if they understand they are beat. In a flop of 9-6-2 above, A-6 may call, but only if your opponents' bets are small. But when in front of a large bet, fold A-6 because you may not win against 9-x if you cannot pair your kicker or turn Trips.
Calling stations will be the ones always calling with small pocket Pairs in the presence of overcards.
- Thirdly: they normally believe that every player is bluffing so they are usually tempted to call even with Ace-high. Quite simply, they call a bluff or something that seems like a bluff.
I hope these examples have helped you understand the poker call better. When you play try to look for similar situations where you can apply the call artfully and be aware of when not to use it.
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