High Pockets
brooklyn bum wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
High pockets are a rare bunch. These hands usually range from pocket 10’s to pocket Aces. When these hands do appear you want to get as much money out of them as possible with as little risk as you can. Although these hands are elite when they are facing one opponent, when more than that enters the pot, the odds in their favor are severely hindered. That is why with all of these hands the play is to raise. The raise should be pretty much the same across the board, four times the big blind. On a side bar, you should generally keep all of your pre-flop raises the same as to not give away any information about your hands. The opponent can not pick up a betting pattern if you do not have one.
So all of these hands are played the same way pre-flop. The only thing that differs [...]
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