Pre Flop

The Upswing Poker Lab is a poker training course taught by Doug Polk and Ryan Fee. The Lab is updated regularly with in-depth learning modules, theory videos, and a wealth of information to make you a better poker player. Hold’em is an easy game to learn but a difficult game to master. Mastering it requires making good decisions from the outset, and the very first decision to be made, obviously, is what to do preflop. Let’s dig into some common preflop mistakes that players make and discuss how to correct them. 1. Limping There are some particular situations where limping may be correct, but generally limping puts you at a disadvantage. This is for two reasons. The first is that it’s a very passive play, leaving you with just one way to win the pot, namely, playing well post-flop. And playing well post-flop is far more difficult than playing well preflop. By raising instead, you can win the pot preflop, perhaps by folding out players who have limped or by picking up the blinds.

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95% of the students that come to me are above average post-flop players at the stakes they’re playing. Yet they still struggle to increase their win rates and/or move move up in stakes.

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