Poker Hand Ranges

We have all seen television footage, read in articles and seen for ourselves when a poker player correctly calls out his or her opponent’s exact hand. It is a great thing to see but trying to do so is a recipe for throwing chips down the drain at an alarming rate as you will rarely be 100% correct, instead you should play against a range of hands your opponent could hold.

Those studying the Betfair Promotion code should know that poker is a game played with incomplete information in that we do not know our opponent’s hole cards. It is the job of the player to be able to put together all the information they do have to try and figure out what their opponent is holding. They do this by taking into consideration the playing style of his opponent, the position of the opponent in relation to the dealer button, the stack sizes of the players involved in the hand and how their opponent bets or does not bet.

A useful tool for online poker, whether using the Betfair Poker Bonus or not, is a heads-up display, or HUD as they are more often called, as it displays information written in the hand history files and displays it as statistics, in real time, next to each of your opponents. With a HUD you will instantly know who is loose, who is tight, who plays aggressively and who is passive simply by playing against them and allowing the software to do all the work, though you do need to be able to understand the statistics you are presented with and apply them to each opponent.

For example, your opponent maybe playing a tight 15/10 style which means he plays 15% of the hands dealt to him and raises 10% of the hands dealt to him. Ten percent of hands is a range that looks a lot like 88