Fulltiltpoker.com – Defensive Play
Posted on February 10, 2009
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www.fulltiltpoker.com – Recently, I was reminded of how I can be vulnerable to particular types of plays during a heads up cash game with a good friend of mine. We have always played in such a way that we set the antes at a level which does not change throughout the game.
With this type of heads up game, it is always my instinct to go on the offensive and try and pick up pots. The difference though, is that in a heads up tournament situation, there is always a nice preflop poit built through the blinds being high, but with our heads up cash game, this is not the case.
This particular friend of mine knows my natural disposition to attack pots heads up, and so plays more defensively, waiting for me to walk into trouble. This is often successful against me, especially as my opponent liked to slow play hands and smooth call with relatively strong hands.
This caused me to gradually lose money by trying to pick up one too many pots through sheer aggression, but I knew there was also a weakness to be explotited here too. All I needed was a situation where my opponent had a fairly strong hand, but allowed me to see the turn and river to hit a big draw. This is always a situation we want in poker, but I really felt I could make the most of such a situation in this particular game, as my friend does not much like to fold strong hands.
After we had been playing for about four hours, I finally managed to end the game when I made a full house against my opponents straight. I could have been forced out when I had a single pair on the flop, but my opponents habit of smooth calling backfired as I caught the turn and river perfectly. fulltiltpokercom
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