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Poker Articles

If you want to keep up with all the strategy articles I've written, then look no further! Sort by topic, publication date, or alphabetical order. Some articles are available here in full. For others, check out the abstracts, and use the citations to obtain the articles in full.

Positional River Play in No Limit Hold ’em: Sizing Your Value Bets

Poker Helper, Jan 2007

In another article I wrote for Poker Helper, entitled Don’t Bet the River in Limit Hold ’em Just Because You Have a Good Hand, I made the point that you shouldn’t bet on the river after your opponent checks to you in limit hold ’em just because you have a good hand. If you have over 50% of your opponent’s hands beaten, you shouldn’t necessarily bet. Whether you bet in position on the river in limit hold ’em is really determined by your opponent’s calling distribution; your opponent’s calling distribution is a subset of his hand distribution. A good value bet is one in which you have over 50% of the hands in your opponent’s calling distribution beaten. Well, actually, if you are against opponents capable of check-raising on the river, then things become more complicated. But if you assume that your opponents will just call or fold, which is a good assumption for most games, then a good value bet is one in which you have over 50% of your opponent’s calling distribution beaten. ...

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