Crushing Low Stakes Poker: The Essential Guide to Dominating Low Stakes Sit ’n Gos, Volume 3: Hyper Turbos by Mike Turner

Author:Mike Turner [Turner, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KickstartPoker.com
Published: 2016-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Profitable Passive Plays

Hyper turbos are very aggressive games. To stay ahead of the rising blinds, you have to bet and raise frequently to take down pots and steal the blinds. Aggressive poker is winning poker.

That being said, there are still plenty of occasions where taking a passive line (by checking and calling) is the best option. In this chapter, we’ll take a closer look at profitable passive plays.

Calling pre-flop raises

Calling a raise pre-flop leaves the initiative to your opponent: he’s attacking and you’re defending. Not having the initiative puts you at a disadvantage after the flop. Your opponent has already shown strength by raising and it will be hard to continue in the hand once you miss the flop and your opponent bets again.

Particularly in hyper turbos, you have to be picky in choosing spots to call a pre-flop raise. In standard, deeper stacked games, you can afford to make some loose calls here and there. But in hyper turbos with their shallow stacks, every chip investment counts. As a result, you don’t want to be at a disadvantage in the hand too often by being the defender rather than the aggressor. Before you decide to call a pre-flop raise, always think carefully whether it’s a good spot to do so.

In position you can call raises with a wider range than out of position. Being in position gives you an advantage after the flop and this compensates a bit for the disadvantage of being the defender in the hand. You can always see what your opponent does first before you have to make a decision. If you think you can use your positional advantage to outplay your opponent after the flop, you can consider calling a raise with a fairly wide range.

Be careful of calling raises out of position. This puts you at a double disadvantage: no position and no initiative in the hand. Only call raises out of position when conditions are favorable, like:

• A decent hand that could flop well

• Good pot odds

• Being up against a weak opponent

Finally, only call pre-flop raises when you have the stack to do so. If you have 10 big blinds or less facing a raise, you should generally just re-raise all-in or fold. One exception to this rule would be if you’re slowplaying a monster hand (we’ll discuss slowplaying more extensively below).

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