Royal Flush Poker

www.pkr.com – When talking about positional bets, what I really mean, is making bets which require you to be in a certain position for them to work. The most obvious of these, and probably the most used, is the blind steal. When you are sitting in very late position and the action has been folded around to you, you know there are not many hands you need to force out in order to pick up the pot, and so a reasonable bet can often achieve this, regardless of the cards you happen to be holding.

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Another positional raise you can make is the tester bet. Again, you should ideally be in late position once the flop has come down, and if the action is checked to you, put out a bet to try and pick the pot up there and then. If you do this too often however, you might find that players will check to you even when they do have a hand, so be careful.

Another more complex play would be the reraise with nothing, which you can use in the following circumstances: You ideally want to be second last to act, with an aggressive player last to act. The flop comes down and the action is checked to you (or you are first to act with only 2 players in the pot), you check, Mr aggressive raises to try and pick up the pot, and you come over the top with a substantial reraise.
Of course most aspects of betting involve position in poker, but there are some plays which are rendered useless if the position isn’t set up right, and these should be used more sparingly.