Texas Holdem - Strategy Plays

What to Do
There are many times that similar situations arise which leave you shaking your head as what to do. Lets look at some different hands in different situations in different tournaments. You are left to your own conclusions. A later post will give you some ideas and tips about what to do or different things to try that make the decisions a bit easier and overall some things to consider.

In all of these situations you need to do two things. The first thing you have to do is consider the player and how they have played. Not always easy to do b/c you might not have played against that person at all. The second thing you need to do is put the person on a hand. Again, no perfect science to this but after playing a lot of texas holdem you learn to do this and you better learn to do it pretty accurately.

Situation No. 1
You are dealt Kd Qd in a 50 person tournament with 10 people left and only the top 5 make money. You are 4th in chips and the blinds are at 250/500 and the persons in the persons posting the blinds are 3rd in chips and 1st in chips. The first person to act folds and you make a standard x3 raise of BB to 1500. Everyone folds to the BB who raises all-in over 7k in chips. You have 4500 in chips left minus your bet of 1500. What do you do?

Situation No. 2
You are just moved to a new table. You get Ah Jd and seated 4 away from BB. Everyone folds to you and you make a standard x3 BB raise. You get 4 callers including the blinds. The flop is Ac Ad 3c. What do you do?

Situation No. 3
You are recently moved to a new table in which you are the chip leader. You get beat on the river and now the table is pretty even in chips. You then have KK cracked after making a raise UTG and are simply called by the button who flopped an under pair set on a non dangerous looking flop and spanked you around a bit. Now you get pocket 10s and make a standard x3 bet and are called by the short stack BB. The flop comes with Qd Jd 3c. What do you do?

Hopefully all of you viewing the blog will post some ideas and comments. The only way to help each other is to do this. Remember bet to win.