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Beginners' Low Limit Poker Strategy Guide Page 3

Pre-flop you’re going to follow the pre-flop starting hands chart rigidly.  Don’t ever play a hand because you have a “feeling,” or because you happily remember the time you won a huge pot with 5-2 offsuit and it’s your “super lucky” hand.  That’s nonsense and it’s the way losers validate stupidity.  Stick to the chart, or find one that better suits your play.  Only play premium hands and you’ll already be ahead of the majority of players you’ll find losing their money at low limit tables across the net.  I really can’t emphasize this enough, ONLY PLAY PREMIUM HANDS.  Why put yourself at a disadvantage right from the start?  It might be acceptable to handicap yourself at golf, but it sure isn’t smart in poker.  Don’t do it!  If that 3,4 suited starts to look good to you from early position after you’ve been losing for a couple hours, you’re tilting, get up and go do something else, anything else, just stop playing poker until you’ve regained your senses. 

Post flop you need to evaluate your hand and count your outs.  There are 52 cards in a deck with 13 cards in each suit.   If you’re holding an AK and the flop is J 5 3 then you have 6 outs.  An out is a remaining card in the deck that could potentially improve your hand to best hand.  You have 6 outs because potentially there are 3 more Aces, and 3 more Kings in the deck that would improve your hand.  If a King drops you’ll have top pair with an Ace kicker, A strong hand.  In this case we give the AK full outs because the board is not threatening or coordinated.  If the board is coordinated at all you should count overcards as being worth .5 outs each.

Let’s say you hold an A 9 and the flop is A 7 3.  You now have top pair with a flush draw.  You have 2 outs to the A, 3 outs to the 9,  and an additional 9 outs for a flush draw.  We get 9 outs for a flush draw because remember there are 13 cards in each suit.  You’re holding 2 diamonds and there are 2 on the board, therefore there are 9 remaining diamonds that can help you.  Therefore you have 9 outs to a flush, 2 for the A, and 3 outs for the 9for a total of 14 outs.  

Let’s say you hold K J and the flop is Q T 2.  You have an opened ended straight draw.  Either a A or an 9 will give you a straight.  There are four Aces in the deck and four 9’s.  Therefore you have 8 outs to a straight.  You can also give yourself an 1.5 extra outs for the king for a total of 9.5 outs.  Normally count overcards queens and above as being worth .5 outs each.  Three remaining kings valued at .5 outs each equals 1.5 extra outs.  Only value a jack as an overcard if it has a strong kicker queens and up.

Flush draws and open ended straight draws are strong draws.  You’re usually going to stick with them to the river.  Drawing to a top pair is much more iffy.  Top pairs don’t always win so you need to make sure you have the correct pot odds to justify playing your hand.  Drawing to a set is almost never profitable unless the pot is astronomically high.  If you’ve got pocket 77’s and you miss the flop with AJ9, then in most cases you’re going to fold.  You’re holding an underpair (remember we don’t like those), and the odds of having another 7 drop on the turn are 23-1.  Which means you’ll only get your 7 once out of 24 attempts.  Not very good odds are they?  Which brings me to the next subject.

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