Jun 10
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Poker Skills: Making a Big Laydown
Making a Big Laydown is on of the most important skills you can have in any type of Poker. But it’s particularly important when your a no limit texas hold ‘em player. In all honesty it’s also one of the hardest possible things to learn because over folding is also disasterous.
In this example it wasn’t quite so bad because I limped early with them and when a raise and a reraise came afterward I was more than happy to not find out what the raisers had. Now I don’t want you to think that you should always throw your Jacks away in this situation. The truth is this is very much a read play.
The first thing you have to know in this process is what hands most opponents are likely to raise and reraise with. You know this by gaining general experience of how most people at your level of poker play. At most low level tables I think your very justified in calling this reraise because most low level tables have bad players willing to reraise with AJ. If I were playing a bunch of pros I would almost auto fold QQ here unless I have a read that at least on of the two players is full of it.(or If were so big stacked that flopping a Q would win hugh amounts of dough).
The second part is that you should always be watching and noting what opponents have. If you pick out a real tight player and he reraises. You definately need to dump the Jacks. In fact that’s exactly why I folded. The initial raiser pushed All in and the reraiser showed pocket Queens! and I saved myself half of my buy in! Haza!
When you make big laydowns or calls you should constently be watching to see if you were right or wrong. Getting it wrong means you need to readjust your playing strategy getting it right is a good indicator of were you stand. Your reads and abilities mature over time but only if you keep focusing an honing them. Before long you should be able to call specific hands that your opponent has, though only occassionally!
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