Multiplying the blind in this way is an effective and successful strategy and but keep in mind and do remember to avoid betting, as much as possible, the same multiple every time or you’ll get predictable. and knowable by the other participants.

Slow-playing

Slow-playing could be thought of as a hand as ‘anti-betting’. Its main purpose is to trick opponents and force them into thinking that you are weak. They achieve their goal by either checking or under-betting a strong hand. The aim is to stimulate action – preferably a bluff, but also bets from weaker hands – then attack suddenly with a large bet of your own.

There are some players who prefer slow-play before the flop, just calling pre-flop with pocket A’s for example, then coming in with a very large and huge bet after the flop. In normal play this is a very risky and complicated business. You may be able to tempt and attract a player who has flopped high pair into calling your big bet, but you are equally helpless to limpers who flop two pairs, sets and so on. There are few shoddier feelings in poker than to be taken down holding A-A.

But that doesn’t mean that slow-playing should not be part of your arsenal. Flop A, A, J with pocket A-J for example and you might be wise to keep quiet hoping and expecting the A’s or J improved an opponent’s hand and letting them assume the board didn’t hit you.

Slow-play can be particularly effective and valuable against loose and super aggressive players( SAGs) – by betting or bluffing into you they will often take the lead, especially if you have shown weakness by checking before them. For the slow-play too very tight players are a good target. They would not want to get into any action until they have made a hand.

The main aspect or the key is in remembering that slow-play is as dangerous as over-betting. You need be be vary careful and try and be on the safer side by carefully avoiding to get into peril. To be successful and effective at it you have to have the smarts to know how liable it is that a card could come to make a hand that would defeat you, and the discipline to avoid getting trapped if that happens.

Re-raising

Re-raises give rise to a lot of buzz. Like two rough and tough guys in a bar looking at each other up, a re-raise signals a fight brewing and people customarily gathers around to watch. But what does it mean when someone re-raises your bet? When should you consider re-raising someone else’s bet?

It might be easier to know and understand re-raising by looking at it from the perspective of someone re-raising you. That will give you a clear understanding of the situation.