Shorthand limit

To become a winning poker player it is important to know how to play shorthand games. If you usually play internet poker you will see that most of the poker rooms hold shorthand games. At this games it is good to analyze how the other players play the game. Where it is a lot of raising and folding shows that players are shallow and they play only for the sake of the game. If people play equilibrate and there is no hurry in raising and betting, then you should join the game. These players are passive and so you can make a selective aggression and win at a shorthand .

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Concerning the starting hands you should always remember that hand values are relative, so a hand can turn to be a good one in a situation and a total disaster in other situation. One of the most common mistakes that inexperienced players make is to play two high-value cards or an Ace in an early position, then to call the raises with the same type of hand. This is one of the biggest mistakes that you can make as a player, for those hands can very easily become trap hands. The hand is the hand trap that can easily become second-hand value, costing the player a lot of money. The most common trap hands are Ace-10, Ace-Jack, K-Q, King -Jack, King -10, Queen-Jack and Queen-10. Many players usually play that hand in early position and got raises in late position with this type of hand. So if you bet with K-Jack from early position and get a player in late position raises you , you will be caught easily and you will see forced to play against hands like K-Q, Ace-K, Ace –Jack , Ace-Ace , KK and QQ.

Hands to raise with:
Pocket Pairs, AT+, KQ, KJ, QJ, JTs

Hands to call a raise with:
High Pocket Pairs, AK, AQ, AJ, KQ, KJ, AT (maybe), QJs.

Hands to re raise with depends on the type of raise player. If you have an Ace -9 you can re raise because it is the possibility to win at the flop. The same rule is available if you have a pair.