This is not a TechMan original concept – It’s How The Pro’s Do It!

You can turn $6.00 to well over $200.00 - bank roll build. Patience is key. It’s slow and boring for the first 600 to 900 hands, but it will get you enough cash and confidence that when you open up your game – you have enough to sustain a few bad beats and rebuild the bankroll back as I did it numerous times. – It works!!

You must play Limit tables. No Limit and Pot Limit table are out! You can play those when you reached your first levels of success. This is not glamour! It’s a bankroll building period. The site needs to have $.05/$.10 tables or lower. Absolute, Sporting Bet, Tropics and Jet set are all excellent choices.

Starting Hands and Positions:

Early Positions - “The 3 seats left of the Button” play the following:

“Monster Hands”, AA, KK, QQ, JJ and AK Suited

“Very Strong Hands”, AQ, AJ, KQ, KJ, K10, QJ, Q10, (all suited), and pocket 10’s and 9’s.

Only Raise and Re-Raise AA, KK and AK Suited.

Do not Re-Raise with QQ and JJ. You can raise or call only.

Note – this includes the blinds!! Do not call from the Small Blind just because you have money in the pot! You’re in the worst position after the flop. You must act first with no knowledge about what whether the other players have improved.

Middle Positions - “The 4th, 5th and 6th seats after the button play the following:

“Monster Hands”, “Very Strong Hands” and now add what I call

“Strong Hands” to your arsenal.

“Strong Hands” are suited connectors J10, 10 9, and pocket 8’s.

When played, you can still raise “Monster” and “Very Strong Hands” all the way down to pocket 10’s.

You can Re-raise “Monster Hands” and “Very Strong Hands” down to suited AJ because you have pretty good position on the board.

***Watch for strong players bluffing.

Late Positions – The 7th seat through the Button, play the following:

“Monster Hands”, “Very Strong Hands”, “Strong Hands”

Now you add, “Good Hands”

“Good Hands” are suited A-any suited, K9, Q9, 9 8, 8 7 and unsuited AK, AQ, AJ, A10, KQ, KJ, K 10, K9, QJ, Q10, Q9, and J10.

"OK Hands" worth a flop against a tight table with few raises - Unsuited KJ, K 10, K9, QJ, Q10, Q9, and J10, Q 8, J 9 - you do not want to call a raise with these hands.

One in 10 or so late position plays, add the following play: Pocket 2’s through Pocket 6’s, suited connectors 7 6, 6 5, 5 4. That’s it, now you want to raise all the way down to 10 9 suited, but still only re-raise through A J suited. You are in the best position if the bet is checked to you even if you have nothing, bet out once in a while – you will win a pot or two.

Playing the flop, if you do not have Top Pair, Two Pair, a Set (3 of a kind), 4 to the Flush, or 4 to the straight we are folding to any bet. If we have Top Pair we are betting or folding if there is a made and hand on the board (3 suited cards or 3 consecutive cards or there is a pair on the board) you will fold 67% or more of your hands at the flop. If we have a set we bet and raise, if we are 4 to the flush we are betting and raising, if we are 4 to the straight, we bet and call.

The Turn, we are still betting, but WATCHING for a call station to come alive if the board pairs, or to suddenly start betting when an odd rag card hits –someone made a hand time to fold, if everyone is call that’s fine for you if they are raising top pair – time to call, if raising you with 2 pair or a set we are re-raising, if we are on a draw, if it is the nut draw we are calling, if it’s a flush and the betting is heavy, if you do not have the A or K as part of the flush – consider folding here, nothing worse than absorbing all the bets only to lose to a better flush..

The River, no matter what, if the bet is checked to you bet. Even if you missed your draw, if there is a bet and you believe you have the hand raise, if not sure call – this is limit Hold’em – one bet will not kill your bankroll.

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