How to Play Poker With Chips?

There are many Texas Hold’em fans who cannot do without one thing: poker chips. How to play poker with chips. This has become one of the issues that most fans are concerned about during the game. Today, I will introduce the strategy of Texas Hold’em regarding the amount of chips and playing methods.

If you are playing in an online game, the cards will be dealt synchronously before entering the bonus circle. And the end of the synchronous dealing means that you have entered the bonus circle. In a live game, the manager in charge of managing the tournament will shout in the middle of the venue. “Now enter the bonus circle.” If you are participating in a small tournament, the players may smile knowingly. If you are participating in a large tournament, due to the large number of participants, the bonus circle reward may be 2~3 times the buy-in, and you may hear the players clapping and cheering.

After entering the bonus circle, everyone has different amounts of chips, so the strategy will also be adjusted to a certain extent. How to play poker with chips?

First, let’s talk about deep stacks.

After entering the bonus circle, most players with deep stacks have this mentality, “I should be heading for the final table now.” In order to continue to accumulate chips, they begin to suppress other players at the table, and their aggressiveness is higher than any other player at the table. But this also creates a problem. Chips are like money. It’s hard to make, but it’s fast to spend.

When you win the pot, it’s not because your opponent is afraid of you, but because you really hit a good hand or made the right decision. If you win a few pots in a row, you may be guided by these results and mistakenly think that your opponent is afraid of you, then the problem begins. When the process of accumulating chips becomes unsatisfactory, or you don’t win the coin flip. The upper emotions will begin to occupy your brain, and suddenly you find that you are in the middle of the chips. With the collapse of the mental defense line, it won’t be long before you become short.

The main reason for this result is that you are too arrogant. After you win a few pots, you start playing very wide cards, thinking that your opponent will still respect your bets. And you are less and less convinced that your opponent has cards in his hand. Even if you think it’s difficult to have a good winning rate with the cards in your hand, you still flip the coin with your opponent.

You need to realize at all times that in the world of poker. The reason you can make a profit is not because you think you are invincible, but because you really play well or you are in a good mood at the time.

Sometimes you enter the bonus circle with a medium stack. Don’t be too pessimistic when you are at this stack. I have watched too many games and concluded that the player with the most chips may not be able to make it to the end. Those who can win the championship are those who slowly accumulate chips, win by flipping a coin at a critical moment, and finally sit on the championship throne.

How to Play Poker with a Medium Stack

When you are in a medium stack, you still have enough chips to act. Remember that you are a big threat to deep stacks, so there is no need to be afraid of them. With enough chips, you don’t have to enter the pot as frequently as deep stacks, so be patient. Once you enter the pot with deep stacks at the same time, block them multiple times on the right public cards. The reason behind this is simple. Their entry range is wide, while yours is tight, and their hand strength is difficult to withstand your multiple attacks.

In the confrontation with deep stacks, you need to show your attitude. If you are always afraid to fight with deep stacks, they will find out and take advantage of this. On the contrary, if deep stacks know that you are ready to fight with them, they will be much more cautious before entering the pot and respect your actions more.

Finally, the Short-stack Poker Play

When we enter the pot with short-stacks, how to act mainly depends on your hand strength. Don’t treat short-stacks like deep-stacks.

You will be short-stacked most of the time when you enter the bonus circle. As a short-stack, you also need to be patient enough. You may have seen many poker masters use AK to grab dead money when they have 20BB in order to prevent the chips from becoming shorter. I have no opinion on this practice, but think about it the other way around. Facing the masters, can the hand strength of those who can take the 20BB all-in be weaker than AK? I rarely see anyone use AQ, AJ, or pairs less than 99 to take it, unless they are recreational players.

In fact, we don’t need to panic before the chips are less than 8BB. When the blind level continues to rise, we need to ask these questions. How many hands are left before I am in the BB position? Before it is my turn to be in the BB, which cards are suitable for me to go all-in to grab the blinds?

When you just passed the BB position and there are 8BB left, you get JT, no one in front of you opens the pot, and there is only one player behind you who has not acted. This is when you must go all in. If you get 29 in the same situation, you should still fold, after all, there is still a chance to get a hand that is more worthy of your all-in.

If you double up successfully with 8BB, now you have 16BB, of course it is not ideal, but if you double up successfully again, you will have 32BB, and now you are completely alive.

When you are a short stack, you need to think about one thing. It is difficult for you to go further, and the huge reward is even more distant from you. What you need to do is to seize the opportunity in front of you, be patient, fearless, and whatever happens is what you should do.