Poker Tips: Choosing your seat, value betting, and overcalling
Here are three useful poker tips to help you with your game:
Picking the right seat
Some may believe that they have a lucky position on the poker table but in reality, there is no lucky seat. What you can get is a winning seat and that depends who will be on your left and who will be sitting on your right.
Remember that the action goes clockwise in poker so anyone who is to the left of anyone has a positionl advantage. So the person to your left will always see what you will do before he or she decides. This is not the case of course when you go heads up.
Loose players should be to your right. This way you will make most of their aggressive moves. Tight aggressive poker players should be to your left because they do not participate too much on the pot and therefore will not be able to make most of their positional advantage.
Value Betting
When you say value betting, this involves betting on a situation when you are considering gaining some small advantages while the less aggressive players will go for a check.
Value betting will work for you if your opponents are somehow intimidated by your presence. Go on value betting if you think you have a psychological hold of the poker table. This means you cannot really make most of value betting when you are on the losing end since the other players feel superior over you. When you don’t have psychological control of the table, then value betting does not give you an edge.
Overcalling
Winning poker players make money because they know when to bet, raise, and call. They must really be doing something right. Most of the time though these players overcall. Overcalling means that there is already a bet at least and then you become another caller. A lot of players lose money when they overcall on the river.
