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We are pleased to offer all of the following promotions this month at Rakeback Hammer. Simply sign up for a valid account at a participating poker room and you will automatically be enrolled.

Freerolls.

Freerolls provide you a FREE entry into a poker tournament with thousands of dollars on the line. See below for more information on each freeroll. All those who qualify will receive email notification including the date and time of the freeroll.

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How to Defend Against the Hyper-LAG Poker Style

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Difficulties.
In the modern game, defending against the LAG and hyper-LAG styles is arguably the most difficult thing to do. These opponents mix up their game so much that they’ll almost invariably put you to a tough decision. It’s especially difficult to play against them out of position (OOP).

Loose Aggressive PlayerClose to the bubble is the toughest time to face hyper-LAGs, because you’re forced to fight back with a lighter range at times, or to give up control of the table at this crucial juncture.

Oversized 3-bets all-in, even though they’re obviously high-variance, can be a good counter against hyper-LAGs at bubble time, with hands such as medium pairs (where you wouldn’t normally like to make the same move against other opponents). For instance, let’s say you have 66 with 60 BB in the big blind. A hyper-LAG has 25-30 BB and raises from the cutoff. This may be a good spot to for you to shove, because it’ll be hard for him to call with less than 88+. He may not be ready to play for his tournament life if he’s holding KJs, KQs, or QJs. However, if you make only a standard 3-bet, he’ll very likely re-shove with such holdings. Therefore, especially around bubble time, a lot of your decisions should account for stack sizes and position, and you need to have fold equity on your side so you can pressure the hyper-LAGs with the threat of elimination.

€10,000 New Depositor’s Freeroll at PokerHeaven

€10,000 New Depositor’s Freeroll at PokerHeaven

PokerHeaven is inviting all new players who have never played with us before to take part in the big money freeroll on Thursday June 7th at 18:30GMT.

Simply make your First Deposit and play ONE raked hand on a cash table of your choice, to be eligible for this exclusive Freeroll.

How to play:

  1. Make your first deposit any time during May (available to new players in addition to existing players who have never previously deposited)
  2. Play 1 raked hand in the month of May
  3. Register to play in the New Depositor Freeroll on the 7th of June

Omaha Poker Tips

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Here are some Omaha poker tips:

  • At Omaha, remember that the number of cards available to each player always means that the winning hands are much bigger than they are at Holdem. Most novice Omaha players lose a lot of money with hands that would look enormous in Hold’em but are not big enough in Omaha. Be especially careful with small full houses, which frequently lose to bigger full houses, and moderate flushes which frequently lose to bigger ones of the same suit.
  • If you’re playing Omaha Hi/Lo (also known as Omaha/8), remember that the lowest low hand is determined by the top card, not the bottom. So 76543 is lower than 8432A. And remember that only two cards from your hand can contribute to either the high or the low. Once you have fully grasped these two concepts, Omaha Hi/Lo is an excellent game to play online as so many players do not understand the rules!

Understanding Actual Odds and Pot Odds

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The important rule of good poker strategy is to learn and understand the concepts of actual odds and pot odds. “Actual odds” means the actual mathematical odds of something occurring. “Pot odds”means the relationship of the money in the pot to theactual odds of something occurring to give you that pot.

For example, let’s consider that you and I were to engage in a quarter flipping contest. If I asked you to call the coin flip, heads or tails, you would understand that the actual odds of you guessing correctly (or, getting the call you wanted) would be 50 percent, or even, or put in the way we calculate poker hand probabilities, 1-to-1.

Top Tips for Low-Stakes Ring Games

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Low-stakes ring games are very popular and the amateurs are plentiful at these levels. $.50-$1 and lower games are the easiest games to beat: All you need is to play with solid fundamentals and you will consistently dominate.

To win the most at these games, you should adopt a medium-tight, highly-aggressive playing style. That means you should raise aggressively for hands you play. Low-stakes ring game players can generally be classified as loose-aggressive. So make sure that you narrow the action every hand you play and carefully pick the hands you play.

If you play too many hands or don’t play them aggressively enough you are going to trap yourself in losing hands. So if you are a patient, aggressive player who likes to take charge of the game and control the action, low-stakes no limit ring games are perfect for you. You should get started with your domination right now!

Aggressive Poker Tournament Strategy

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Aggression is built into the basic strategy. If you follow it, you’ll have an attacking style of play.

In poker, if no one ever folded and every hand was a showdown, the best hand would always win. But this isn’t how the game is played. Because of the power of betting, it’s often the case that the hand that would have won is folded at some point.

In his excellent book The Theory of Poker, David Sklansky points out that every time you get your opponent to do something different from what he would have done had he seen your cards, you’ve gained. Aggressive betting and raising often convince your opponent that you have the best hand, which may or may not be true. These tactics increase the chances that your competition will make mistakes. The fact that most confrontations are heads-up, and that your style of play usually forces a decision based on seeing only two cards, makes accurate decision-making especially difficult for your opponents. Undoubtedly, some of the times that your opponent folds, he’ll have a better hand than you. Your aggressive betting drives him out. If he could see your cards, he’d make different decisions, such as calling more frequently. But if he doesn’t, according to Sklansky’s principle, you’ve accomplished your mission.

Choosing Your Seat

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When you were playing online and preparing to sit down at a table with more than one open spot, hopefully you understood that one seat might be better than the others. Typically, the two most important considerations should have been:

  1. Knowledge of your opponents’ tendencies. It’s usually beneficial to have the more aggressive and unpredictable players to your right, and the more passive and predictable ones to your left. If you typically played at a given limit and took good notes on your opponents, then you probably recognized several of them every time you sat down, and you already had a good idea of their styles.
  2. The stack sizes. You’d rather have the larger stacks to your right and the smaller ones to your left. It’s more important to know what actions the larger stacks will take before you have to make a decision about your hand. Obviously this applies specifically to no-limit hold’em.

Balancing Overaggression, Bluffs and Tricky Moves in Shorthanded PLO

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This is one of the keys to successful shorthanded play. Some players are just too tricky for their own good, or have just one gear: the everbluffing and bullying loose-aggressive players. It is important to also change gears every once in a while by giving your opponents a break sometimes, by slowing down a little bit, or by playing a hand in a straightforward and obvious manner rather than the tricky manner that people might expect from you. By slowing down from time to time, you want to make sure that your bets and raises stay credible enough to warrant respect. And this is important: you want to steal more than your fair share of pots, but if you go after almost every pot you play people will start using this pattern of play against you.

The key is to always analyze the current state of mind that your opponent (s) may have. Probably, you will be multitabling and face some of your opponents in multiple games. So, you should have a good clue as to how they are running, and whether or not they may be on the verge of tilt. (For this reason, you should always try to keep open as many tables as possible, especially bigger games than yours that one of your opponents may be playing in. If he loses a big pot in the bigger game, good chance that he will suddenly get more active in your game - meaning you should try to steal less, bluff less and check-)call more to induce bluffs.)

Preflop Raise Sizing in Online Poker

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Sizing our preflop raises is very important. However, again, there is no optimal static strategy. If we take basic bet theory into consideration, we know that bigger bets tend to get less action (but action from stronger hands) and smaller bets tend to get more action (and from a wider range of hands). Does this mean we want to open-raise to 6bb with AK to get more folds? Not really. Ideally, we would size the bets for all of our hands the same way to ensure that our bet sizing doesn’t give off tells to our opponents. If we always used a “big bets equal big hands”, and “small bets equal weaker hands” approach in our sizing, it would be very obvious for anybody paying attention.

There are two major approaches to preflop open-raise sizing:

  • Raise 3x from every position
  • Raise 4x from early position (EP) / middle position (MP), and raise 3x from late position (LT)
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