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Learn to slow down when you have a big overpair and you’re playing against the blinds. If you have QVQ* and the flop is J47*5*, your hand may be good, but it’s not great if the blind bets into you. Except for another queen, there’s almost no card in the deck that I like on the turn or river.

A 54 or 54 gives you two pair, but what if he’s holding J*5* or A45*? How do you know that an ace or a king on the turn doesn’t beat you? Even a harmless looking deuce could make him two pair. Remember, he’s in the blind, so he could have anything.

So what do you do? You should usually just call with an overpair if the blind bets into you and there’s just the two of you in the hand. If there are other players in the hand, then you will sometimes want to raise to thin the field, which will increase your chances of winning the hand.

As a reminder, don’t forget that the entire nature of Texas hold ‘em (and any other poker game) is that it’s a game of concealed information. When the flop is K*7V4t and the big blind bets into you, you can think to yourself, “I’m going to fold my K484, because he’s in the blind, and his kicker could be better than mine. Or he might have two pair, and I just don’t want to play a guessing game and pay him off all the way to the river, never knowing for sure where I stand.”

You can think all that, just don’t say it out loud. The idea of playing differently against the blinds is a little-known concept among lower limit players, so you should want to be the one player in your game to take advantage of it. casinos

Next time you play in your usual hold ‘em game, I want you to keep track of every time you fold a hand on the flop when playing against the blind. We’re interested only in those times when you would have called a bet from a player not in the blind, but did not call simply because the player who bet was in the blind position. After you fold the hand, keep track of how much money you’ve saved yourself.

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