How to play the blinds at texas holdem
ErnestoT wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Texas Hold ‘Em - playing blinds
How do you avoid throwing away money on the big and small blinds at the start of a hand? Former InsideEdge poker expert, the late Andrew NS Glazer, revealed all in this article.
Blinds in hold’em serve a purpose similar to antes in stud games: they create an incentive for a player to invest and/or attack. Without any ’starter money’, there would be little incentive for an intelligent player to make the first bet, even with a very good hand. If everyone else folds, he’s won nothing. Without blinds or antes, the first bet is merely a target, and the other players could safely fold without an unbeatable hand.
By forcing the player to the dealer’s left to post a small blind (SB) and the player to his left to pay a big blind (BB - usually double the small blind), hold’em becomes much more interesting and [...]
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