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When players raise small over several limpers usually this is indicative of a “pot sweetener” type of hand not a strong one.

Players often underestimate their implied odds when calculating draws

In general limp reraising is a weak play for value as it folds out a lot of worse hands that would have called a single raise.

Most of the money won in poker is by beating losing players. That is where you should concentrate most of your effort.

A lot of players do not want to play large, limped pots. This creates a situation where you can attack the right board textures.

Sometimes you can not barrel a good turn card and risk less by waiting until the river, if your opponent checks at the end.

When playing against opponents that do not exploit your tendencies, playing exploitative in live poker usually wins the most money.

Running the cards multiple times does not change the EV of a hand, only the variance. Bart hesitates to run in more than once in Hold’em games to prevent players from calling light or making moves on him with draws.

In flat drop games chopping is usually best.Blinds, winrate, rake

It’s important to pay attention to the distribution of flop suits when trying to evaluate if your opponent could have made a backdoor flush on the river.

Most of the money at the higher stakes of poker is won and loss through steaming. At the mid and low stakes it is important to pay attention to who is tilting in the short term.

Sometime you can wait to see what your opponent does by checking the flop and if they check again you risk less with your bluff on the turn than betting the flop.

You can bet very thin on scary rivers as your opponents will likely think you are polarized leading to much wider calls.

In most live No Limit games pot control is vastly overrated, as your opponents do not have a high bluffing frequency.

There are a number of different factors to lead to the decision of whether or not to Cbet as a bluff as the preflop raiser

If you have an overpair and a draw comes in a lot of times your opponent has more combinations of top pairs in their range than draws

In most circumstances check calling the river at low to midstakes live no limit games is a weak play.

A good math rule for flat calling implied odds types of hands like pocket pairs, suited connectors and gapped suited connectors

You can learn a lot about the strength of someone’s hand by their relative position in relationship to the preflop raiser

Recreational players have short-term memories and most believe in the factor of luck. This perception should sometimes dictate the way that you play hands through your good or bad image.