Holdem for advanced players

[ben-jammin]

Something that is confusing me in Sklansky's holdem for advanced players is when he refers to "playing a hand". e.g "you can sometimes play a hand like 7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]in an early position". Does this mean go ahead and raise, or just call??

[Pov]

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Something that is confusing me in Sklansky's holdem for advanced players is when he refers to "playing a hand". e.g "you can sometimes play a hand like 7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]in an early position". Does this mean go ahead and raise, or just call??

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Either though if I remember correctly they're talking more about raising in this example. But you need to ignore this advice for now. This advice is for playing against GOOD players where most of the table is going to notice that you played this hand out of position so later when you raise your AA from early position you may get more marginal hands to call you and make a second best hand. Plus if the hand hits it will be well disguised. If you've played much low limit hold 'em live or online you'll quickly see that this play has very little value as far as being deceptive for anything other than the current hand. People simply don't pay attention. On the other hand, a lot of low limit tables are loose and passive enough that calling 76s may actually be an okay play whereas at $30/$60 it is suicide to do so on a regular basis.

[BradleyT]

At low limits with unobservant opponents you don't want to make plays like that.

When you get to higher limits and players actually pay attention to the way you play and use that information for making betting decisions, "mixing it up" with plays like this every so often makes it so your opponents can't read you like an open book.

At lower limit no foldem it's just throwing money away.