Tilt Poker Pinball, Poker Strategy Questions, and Mid-limit Hold'em
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POKER ITSELF ON TILT! Yep! The World Poker Tour have reached a deal with an American pinball manufacturer to produce a Poker-Tour-themed pinball machine! The game allows you to travel the world’s poker circuit, enabling you to create the perfect Hold’em hand by hitting a maze of targets and switches. Coming soon to an arcade near you. Surely they’ll call it “Tilt!” Rival manufacturers who were not commissioned have already sour-graped it with the nickname “Flop!”
TODAY’S POKER TUTORIAL You’re in a $20-$40 game of Texas Hold’em. You’re holding Jack and Queen of diamonds in middle position. Two early players and two middle players limp and you limp right along with them. The “cut-off” (player in the seat to the right of the button) raises and everyone else calls except the button and small blind who both fold. There are seven players and $290 in the pot. The flop delivers ten of hearts, seven of clubs and three of spades. Everyone checks to the “cut-off” who bets. One middle limper calls. What do you do? Think about your answer before reading the explanation below.
POKER TUTORIAL ANSWER It costs you $20 to call and there’s $330 in the pot giving you great pot odds. On the downside you only have six outs to a pair of jacks or queens which may well fail against a pre-flop raiser who could easily have A-A.K-K.Q-Q.10-10 or A-Q. The only legitimate hand you have six outs against is Ace-King. You have some long shots but they don’t turn what is looking like a certain fold into a call. Allowing for the fact the cut-off may even have raised on something wildly optimistic like Queen-10 suited or Jack-10 suited you are still drawing with a very slim chance of success. Lookout for overcards that could easily be no good even if they pair-given the pre-flop betting. With your Queen-Jack, even if you were fortunate enough to be drawing to a better hand than the current top hand, the card that hits you could most likely make someone else the same hand with a better kicker. It’s a fold.
MID-LIMIT TEXAS HOLD’EM The above tutorial is a good example of mid-limit Hold’em play and is probably in the cash range that a lot of onliners can manage these days. I like these game scenarios as learning tools and if you find them valuable I recommend “Middle Limit Hold’em Poker” by Bob Ciaffone and Jim Brier as they are masters at laying out problems and walking you through their considered solutions.
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