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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.

Floating

Poker Helper, Jul 2007

A term that’s gotten increased exposure recently, especially among the internet kids, is “floating.” Though floating is a relatively new term, the line of play it describes is far from new, and it’s a line of play that’s an essential part of your arsenal if you wish to play hold’em at its highest levels.

Floating refers to calling with the intention of bluffing later in the hand. For example, your opponent raises from the cutoff to three big blinds. Action folds to you, and you’re sitting in the big blind with 62o. Even if you put the cutoff on a pure steal (in other words, you put the cutoff on a random hand), your 62o is way behind his distribution. If we’re looking at hand values in the pure context of hit-to-win poker, it’s a horrible hand that you should fold.

However, thinking about hand values under the hit-to-win paradigm goes out the window when you start thinking of how you can outplay your opponents postflop. In this article, we’ll explore various types of floats that you can use to your advantage and lines of defense to use against players who may be floating against you
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