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Click here to return to page 1 The above situation and tactics would also hold true if you put your opponent on middle pair. For example, the flop comes 3 10 J, and you think that your opponent may be holding a 10. Possibly A 10. In this situation, you'll be hoping that no other high card comes on the turn, so you can put in a good sized double barrel bet to scare your opponent away. What To Do If Your Opponent Re Raises Your Bet On The Flop Now this is where math goes totally out of the window, and player image and information take centre stage. First of all you have to look at your own table image. Have you made it obvious that you like to continue bet with air? Has your continuous aggression forced players to start playing back at you? If so, not only should you refrain from putting in a double barrel bet, but you should actually fold and slow your play right down, safe in the knowledge that you now have the most desired image in poker. The loose aggressive image is invaluable, as when you make a really strong hand you can bet and bet again, knowing that people won't believe that you have anything and will pay you off. What you shouldn't do when you have a loose aggressive image is continue bet with nothing, let alone double barrel. On the other hand, if you have a conservative table image, it's very important to look at your opponents playing style. Is he a tight player? If so, there's a very good chance that he has you beat, and i'd fold the hand right there. If your opponent is a loose aggressive player though, things really start to get interesting. Personally, i play quite a logical mathematical poker style, and if i have one or more of these aggressive type players at my table, i wouldn't be continue betting anyway. I'd be waiting for something playable, and calling all of his raises, continuations, and double barrels right until the river where i'd raise him for as much as i thought i could get. If you're the type of player who can't help but be aggressive though, again, it comes down to your reads. If you'd initiated the betting pre flop and continue bet post flop, only to be re raised by a hyper aggressive, position would definately become a factor. If you were first to act on the turn, it'd be worth calling the re raise in order to fire in a double barrel bet on the turn in the hope that your show of strength would scare him off. If your opponent was first to act on the turn though, calling his re raise wouldn't be an option, as he'd simply fire another bullet on the turn, at which point you'd have to give it up. This leaves you with two choices. Either fold to his re raise, at which point you'd be admiting to everybody that you've been bluffing and you'd have to slow right down for a while, or you could re raise him. This may well be enough to take the hand there and then. It also shows so much strength that if he fails to bet the turn you can put in a nice sized bet to take advantage of his lack of action and win the pot. The one obvious danger of the re re raise is if your opponent comes over the top again with another raise. It'd be totally suicidal to continue to put any more money into the pot, so you'd have to lick your wounds and retreat having lost a large amount of money/chips. For this reason, the re re raise when holding nothing is a very dangerous advanced play which should always be based on a solid read. To sum up, continuation betting and double barreling are not only very useful poker tools, but are necessary techniques to be able to use and defend against in todays fast paced, aggressive game of poker. Both techniques must be used with extreme caution though as they're only effective against the right type of players, in the right situations, with the right reads. Play against the easiest opposition in online poker and recieve the highest rakeback anywhere at Goldflop poker. You'll get 40% rakeback plus 20% from our exclusive Goldflop rake chase plus entry into two rake races per month, giving you between 60% and 70% rakeback EVERY month. Click here for Goldflop sign up instructions. |
