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 Betting Strategies.
Betting Strategies in online poker tournaments are a vital tool to success. Betting strategies are merely ways of betting that will put the pot odds in your favor and will possibly induce a mistake on your opponents part to show a profit for you.
One betting Strategy in an online poker tournament is the continuations bet or follow up bet after raising before the flop. These are also feeler bets in a way the let you know where you stand in the hand as well as possibly giving you a chance to win the pot right there. These types of bets are usually used when you raised preflop representing a strong hand. Lets say you raised preflop and the flop didn’t help you and there is 400 in the pot you make another bet of 200 or as little as 100. If everyone folds you will show a profit. If someone calls you will have to put them on something and then depending on your read and your cards play accordingly. Now lets say that when you make a bet of half the pot 1 out 3 times you will win. If this is the case you will win right there. This bet will show a profit for you. Lets say you only bet 100 now if you take the pot one of 4 times you will show a profit. This is a common betting strategy. You will see your opponents use this quite a bit.
Another betting strategy in an online poker tournament is to stop the chasers by putting the pot odds against them. Lets say you have AK and the flop comes AK9 and two are suited. Now you will need to bet an amount that will deny your opponent 3 to 1 odds in order to chase his flush which is the likely chasing hand here or maybe a open end straight draw. So lets say you bet making the pot odds 2 to 1 and he chases it. Sometimes you will have to fold because he will hit but he will only hit 4 out of 1 times or so. Therefore this play will show a profit for you if he continues to chase and you should eventually come out ahead.
Betting Strategies in online poker tournaments are basically ways of either winning the pot cheaply when you don’t have anything or betting the right amount to deny proper odds for a draw but to allow a call from someone with a hand not as good as yours.
So this is the basic idea of betting strategies. There is much more too this than we have covered here. You will also have to make some adjustments depending on the table.
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