With a gut-shot, back door nut flush and an over card that is likely good, we have a lot of nice semi-bluff outs, and the gut shot and nut flush carry nice implied odds if we hit. There’s an even better play though.Ĭheck the flop, with the intention of making a smallish check-raise. Some of the more aggressive students will go ahead and lead at this pot, at least figuring no one hit it often enough, which of course they’d be correct. I’ll often watch a student check/fold here. Player on the button calls, and you call in the big blind with Ah2h. Someone raises the minimum in middle position in a 6-max cash game. Something that I see students miss over and over again in my 6 years as a poker coach. I’m going to focus on one specific hand situation that occurs quite often. I can’t over emphasize how important it is to think of creative ways to scoop more than your share of the small pots. All of these pots (and we’ll define small as 10 big blinds or less), add up over the course of a session, and turn already winning players, into players that crush their stakes. It’s the small pots that a lot of players over look far too often though. How do you increase your poker winrate from good to great? It’s all about picking up the small pots, and of course, playing the big pots well. This is going to be part of the: Missed Opportunities at micro/small stakes no-limit Series
