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If you are a player who sits down regularly at a table with friends perhaps, and knows that one or more players at the table are more skilled or experienced, you might wonder what you can do to even things up and level the playing field. In a way it is possible to do so, I have a friend who used to play super aggressive all the time in an attempt to even things out and in a way it worked. He would come into many pots raising and then raising again on the flop regardless of wether he hit anything, you might say this is easy to play against, and on paper you would be right, but he managed to get lucky a lot too. Having waited for a reasonably strong hand to play with like (K,Q) or (A,J) I might reraise him all in being pretty sure he would have a weaker hand, he would promptly show something like (5,7) and two live cards, make his pair, and take the pot. It was frustrating but it certainly showed how being the aggressor in the pot can give you a good chance to win, many times the opposition will fold, and if they don?t, well you can always get a little lucky and win anyway.
Needless to say if you play this way and your luck isn?t strong you will lose a lot, but then that is the risk an aggressive player takes, you will take a lot more luck dependant swings in your chipstack, and this can nullify the skill of other players to an extent. Although this might then seem the right way to play, you still need to be able to read when your opponents are most likely to fold to do well playing aggressively. I have always personally been more inclined to try and outplay my opponent rather than just raise them out of contention, whoever they might be. With that in mind I have to say I don?t think as a player you have to change your game when you come up against skilled opposition, you may try and outplay them and lose, but you will learn far more in the process then if you were to just move all in every hand.

If you are a player who sits down regularly at a table with friends perhaps, and knows that one or more players at the table are more skilled or experienced, you might wonder what you can do to even things up and level the playing field. In a way it is possible to do so, I have a friend who used to play super aggressive all the time in an attempt to even things out and in a way it worked. He would come into many pots raising and then raising again on the flop regardless of wether he hit anything, you might say this is easy to play against, and on paper you would be right, but he managed to get lucky a lot too. Having waited for a reasonably strong hand to play with like (K,Q) or (A,J) I might reraise him all in being pretty sure he would have a weaker hand, he would promptly show something like (5,7) and two live cards, make his pair, and take the pot. It was frustrating but it certainly showed how being the aggressor in the pot can give you a good chance to win, many times the opposition will fold, and if they don?t, well you can always get a little lucky and win anyway.
Needless to say if you play this way and your luck isn?t strong you will lose a lot, but then that is the risk an aggressive player takes, you will take a lot more luck dependant swings in your chipstack, and this can nullify the skill of other players to an extent. Although this might then seem the right way to play, you still need to be able to read when your opponents are most likely to fold to do well playing aggressively. I have always personally been more inclined to try and outplay my opponent rather than just raise them out of contention, whoever they might be. With that in mind I have to say I don?t think as a player you have to change your game when you come up against skilled opposition, you may try and outplay them and lose, but you will learn far more in the process then if you were to just move all in every hand.

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I wouldn’t say in any type of pokerstars.com game that it is always right to stay in a pot whilst drawing to a hand, but Omaha hi/lo is one game where you could say there is often a case for this. If you have an opportunity to make the best possible low hand and you need one card to make a flush for example, I would call most bets with 2 cards to come, simply because of the vast amount of outs which would almost certianly win me half or all of the pot.

Despite this sometimes being the case in Omaha hi/lo there is certainly a precedent of calling too many hands preflop too, mostly I suppose because the proposition of taking a flop with four hole cards holds far more interest than if you are holding two, there are more options for your hand to improve. www.pokerstars.com

Despite this you should still be folding many of your hands preflop, and always be aware of how many outs you have if you are considering calling raises on the flop or turn.

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