Pockerstars.com Flip Hands
Posted on June 22, 2008
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Pockerstars.com is a great place to try out various online pocker theories and strategies. Like the one below on coin flip hands. Give it a shot today!
When people talk about coin flip hands, what they mean are hands such as (9,9) against (A,Q) or any hand in which your odds of winning are close to 50% Two overcards against a pair are the obvious ones which often come up, and I managed to survive two such hands in a pockerstars.net tournament I played in tonight. I felt it was quite possible that I would be involved in this type of hand even before I made the call, but on both occassions I was against a shorter stack so I would still have chips to fight back with if things didn’t go my way, also I may have been overestimating their hands, as being shortstacked they might have been prepared to gamble with a slightly weaker hand too.
Firstly I had (J,J) hold up against (Ac,Kc) and later on against a fairly small stack (2,2) against (Ad,Kd). I was lucky to win both these hands and went on to eventually finish 14th out of a field of 588 players, but I would not have been willing to take this kind of risk if there were players yet to act who might have made it a three way pot, or indeed if my pockerstars.com opponents had enough chips to end my tournament. The importance of these types of hands is partly that they usually yield quite good pots if you win them, but be careful in how you choose to make your stands, If you can expect this to possibly be the situation you are in once you turn the cards over, try to only involve yourself if you heavily outchip your opponent or if you have a large portion of your pockerstars chips in the pot already. This isn’t always possible I know, the important thing as a player though, is that if you find yourself in this position and win, try and use this luck well, and go far into a pockerstars.net tournament, because next time you might not be so lucky.
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