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AETER THE TURN

After the turn, bets would double. Your poker judgment of opponents and the pot odds would dictate when you should stay in the hand.

1.You would have to learn to put your opponents on a hand and play accordingly.

2.You should invest your money in proportion to the size of the pot.

When the other poker players will be on the draw against you, betting to protect you hand will be necessary, even when they will have the correct pot odds to call your bets.

Many beginning poker players will fall into the trap of not betting their good hands (thinking that this will alert their opponents that they have a good hand) and will call with weak hands in hopes of catching a winning card.

This will be the exact opposite o`f what should be done. When you will have the best hand, you would have to bet and force the other poker players to pay to draw you out. Letting them see additional cards without calling a bet will be giving them free cards the equivalent of giving them infinite pot odds. You will have to force opponents to make decisions. You should not worry about concealing the strength of your hand. You will win more money betting with good cards because opponents will learn to respect your bets and will fold their marginal hands.

You might win a showdown with a strong hand, but you will always win when you opponents learn to respect your bets and will fold their marginal hands. You might win a showdown with a strong hand, but you will always win when your opponents will fold, no matter what your cards will be. Sometimes, when many poker players have been contesting the pot, it would not have been correct to bet with the best hand. If many poker players have been on a draw to beat you, the odds would have been that at least one of them would.

This situation has been known as implied collusion. If, for practical purposes, your opponents have been colluding against you, it would have been better to stay in the hand as cheaply as possible. Implied collusion would have occurred most often when the pot would have been large from the beginning (many people have called the pre-flop raises) and everyone has had the correct pot odds to stay, no matter how great the odds against their draw.

When you have been on a draw, there would be cases when it would have been correct to call bets when pot had been small, provided that the size of the pot you had expected to win had been large enough to justify calling the bet. In this case, you had been basing your decision to play on implied pot odds the ratio of the expected money in the pot against the cost to play.

Estimating the implied odds would have required you to judge your opponents’ behavior and intentions. For instance, in a small-pot game where you had expected additional callers later on or in an additional round of betting, it would have been correct for you to call as well. These following scenarios will illustrate the importance of playing pot odds to your advantage.

Scenario 5:

You were holding ace of clubs and jack of spades, and the flop came ace of diamonds, jack of diamonds and the three of clubs. You had bet and everyone had folded, except for one poker player who you had suspected was on a flush draw. The turn was a five of spades, and she had checked to you. You were worried that the last card might have been the diamond that she had needed, and you had checked. A showdown had confirmed she had a flush. You had saved money on this hand by not betting your two pair at the turn, but you had made a terrible play. Your opponent had paid nothing to draw to her flush. She had got a free card since she had had nothing to lose by staying in the hand.

Four out of five times (eighty percent), she would not have hit the flush and you would have won the hand. You should have made her pay to beat you. Over the long run, you would have won much more money than you would have lost.

Scenario 6:

When playing Holdem, you were holding an ace of clubs and nine of clubs in a late position and the flop had come five of clubs, eight of clubs and king of diamonds. There had been a bet and seven callers including you. At the turn, a queen of spades had appeared. A bet had followed by a raise that six people had called. The pot had now been over hundred dollars, and you would have needed to call a twelve dollarbet to stay in. You had hesitated, knowing that eighty percent of the time you would not have made your flush. Because of the large pot, you would have had to call this bet. In this situation, you might have won only one out of five tries, but the one hundred dollar win would have been greater than the sixty dollars cost of making this play five times. Your opponents would have been correct in making you pay to beat them, but you would have been correct in calling.

However, if the pot had contained only forty dollars, your best play would have been to fold because the amount you would have won wouldn’t have justified the cost.

Summary of Play After the Turn

1.If you had had the best hand, you should have made people pay to beat you.

2.If you had been on a draw, you should have made sure the pot size had justified the cost.