By :JAR
27, July, 2011
To achieve a good poker game will be necessary to planned a strategy from the beginning it must have been planned before flop. Interestingly some players think that preflop is not important so they leave this stage of the game aside, and think that it do not affect anything. However, as I mentioned before in previous articles for a player to be successful, he must have a plan or strategy that includes the whole process of game, including every little detail because in poker everything influences.
Improving the play before flop is one of the points that a player must have in favor when playing poker because this will provide a positive advantage.
In addition, pre flop play is something that most books or articles not consider, so it's probably that you can not find references on them since often only gives relevance to the later stages. But if you are interested on knowing more about it there are several factors you have to take into consideration when enter a pot in the preflop.
The first factor factor you have to consider are your cards, for example when you have high pairs as AA to JJ, will be advisable to raise. In case that you have high connectors like AK or AQ you can make use of an interesting strategy that consist in scare low pairs, with this will be easier to recognize tight players. Once you find them, be careful and play strong hands. In case that you have previously lost with good cards, do not play with cards minor to 10.
The second factor to consider are the players. it's important to check the number of players that play before you because it's easier to win when there are few players, since to confront many players can be exhausted and complicated an effective way to increase your chances of winning a pot is to play with a few players, so we must make the players fold by themselves, with this increase your chances of winning because when there are many players, it is likely that one or more may have strong hands, so the best thing is raise to make them fold.
As a third factor to consider we have the budget in other words, we're talking about your bankroll in poker, the economic factor is essential, however is the most variable element of poker. Each player can have a different amount of money, so if your bankroll is large, you will have more options to bet and to chance. However, if your bankroll is limited it is best to take care of your cards and watch closely the movements of your opponents.
These are some of the principal factors that you should consider when play poker in the preflop, be careful and have fun.