Second best hands

When playing poker and you have a weak hand you usually fold before the pre flop, so you don’t have much to lose. But when you have a strong hand you call or raise to see the other hands, but it could happen that one of your opponents to have a nuts hand, and so you lose money with the hand that you thought it is the winning hand. Being feared to play with a good hand , much more than with a weak one make reference to another poker concept: relative hand value.
If you want to win at poker you have to maximize your wins and to minimize your loses. Even an inexperienced poker player can maximize his wins with a strong hand, it is more important to know how to lose. A professional player will know when it is the right moment to fold, in change, the beginner will call only to see his opponent hand, and in this way he will lose much money . It is all about how to fold in an intelligent way. If the beginner wants to satisfy his need of knowing what hand the other player had,, the winning poker player, have overcome this aspect and forces himself to play well. In the small stakes you will have to take into account that players rarely go far beyond the first level of thinking. Most of them play their own cards , hoping to make a big hand and do not really pay attention to what is happening around them. This is the often low-stakes game profitable for someone who thinks at a higher level, but also very frustrating when the other players refuse to fold a losing hand and hunt a miraculous late card.

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Dumping the second best hand on limit poker is different in no limit poker. In a fixed limit game calling with the second best hand wont let you with empty pockets. You will feel your loses only on long term, but sometimes you will win on a short term. The way you are playing the pre flop it is very important in order to minimize the loses. You don’t have to go in if you don’t have a dominated hand, meaning that you are against an opponent with a similar hand, and almost one will beta the other. For example: AA vs AK, or AK vs A9.
In no limit poker. If in a fixed limit game you cannot lose the whole amount of money, in no limit you can lose the whole stack. This is why when having strong hands you must play aggressive. In this regard pocket pairs go up in value because of their possibility to hit a set, and also connecting cards because of their possibility to hit straights. In no limit poker game, cards like AQ, AJ, KJ, KQ go down in value and can be destroyed. These hands can win small pots at top pairs but can lose the whole stack when someone else hits a set or a straight. The key of winning at no limit poker with these hands is not to fold before pre flop ,but the capacity of reading what hand might your opponent have . So don’t simply call bets with the second best hand, raise in order to see where you are. When someone bets at you ,they are threatening your stack, and so you must play the same to threaten their stack too.