Poker Strategy Tip: How To Advertise
You can use many methods to keep others from telling your moves.
Let just think of trying for free cards bluffing, check then
raising, semi-bluffing, and slow -play are some of them. Still
this is not all because there is a more different and
sophisticated way. This type of play is called an advertising
play. It basically means that you will play badly, crazy and do
all the wrong moves when you are sure everyone can see that. By
doing this you will lose hands for nothing and mess with the
other players heads, misleading them, but after a while you can
play good poker and win big from those exact players.
Advertising plays must be done only with persons you are sure
you will play again so you can benefit from them. There is no
point in advertising a play on a table where you won't stay and
with players that won't see you again.
There are certain types of hands you should consider advertising
first, they have priority because they are easy to advertise and
most importantly they will get you a believable play overall.
When you engage yourself into an advertising play you must not
do it with whatever hand you might have. Choose carefully the
hands that you will advertise so that it looks real and you
still stand a decent chance on winning the pot. Advertising
plays like 3-9 in the first position are just bad moves and
won't help you create that image you are going for. They will
just make you lose and show you don't know how to play poker,
and that is not your purpose here. The best way to advertise
your play is to play little connectors like 7-8 suited, 5-6
suited and Ace with another card suited or small pairs. Play
these hands very aggressively when you get them and want to
advertise your play but make sure it gets noticed otherwise it
will all be in vain.
For example let's say you have a hand of 7-8 suited. You are in
first position, so normally you would just drop this hand. When
you intend to advertise, you will have to bet with this hand,
raise and re-raise until you work your way up to the river. Or
if you are last, you will re-raise the bets that have been made
so far and continue with the aggressive streak of moves from
there on. Occasionally you might get caught with your reckless
bluffs on the river. You have to be absolutely positive that
everyone at the table sees your hand so they can all realize
with wonder how badly you played such a hand.
Still, on rare occasions you might get lucky and win the pot. In
this case don't show the hand, it is better this way. The bright
side is that you won money you wouldn't have normally played for
and you can begin the advertising "campaign" right after that
with the new unexpected funds sitted right beside you.
So, a little advertising and then back to normal so you can play
them. Once they saw your way of playing they will make bets and
calls on you because they still think you are playing crazy.
This is the advantage you now hold on your opponents and this
way you will get them bet lots of money on mediocre hands,
thinking they are doing the right thing and you are again
holding a bad hand.
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