Poker Playing Tips 2/2

Poker Playing Tips 2/2 Male: Hey life is a gamble. You’re watching the Player’s Network. I’m the player, aren’t we all? Chet Coppock: Those out of football pre-game shows are waste of time. We were the only dedicated to filled in your bankroll. So sit back and enjoy. Here comes your Winning Edge. Michelle Nunes: Hi, I’m Michelle Nunes, Miss Hooters International 2006. And now to your host Mr. Chet Coppock. Chet Coppock: Can seem a wise guy—the guy is beating the Las Vegas system, you better live it. “Harvard” Hollis Barnhart, more often than he plays poker you better find him that final table. He was a way of earning his way to that final table. Why, because he knows the system. For years and years he has beating the so called perfect Las Vegas system. Whether there’s a basketball, football, hockey, baseball, whatever the case maybe, or in this case poker. “Harvard” Hollis Barnhart, a book of knowledge on how to beat the system. All the guys in my home game. All think they’re great player. All think by guys there, they’re Teddy KGB. They’re Donald Branson, they’re Jesus(ph) Jefferson. What makes—I mean legitimately what makes a great poker player? Hollis Barnhart: Well, let me give you the keys, three words. Raising the pot. Chet Coppock: Alright, now, right at the top. Isn’t to raise is determined by position? Hollis Barnhart: Absolutely. So you’re probably a little bit ahead of the class at your home game. Just going that word position, most people don’t think about that. The position is the key game whether it’s you’re an early position, middle position, or the late position which is called button. You might play a hand completely different with the same two cards. So for instance let’s say you have pocket fours. You look down there there’s a four, four, if you’re an early position there’s no way in the world you’re going to raise—you might not even called the pot, you might just throw them in the mat. If you’re in middle position, you want to play that—you want to look probably ahead of you see if their hands are tucked, if they’re ready it ties after you to react, if they’re ready to toss their hands. They mock their hand. You might go ahead and call that. But if you’re on the button with the same four, four, you’re going to raising the pot and getting out the limpers. Chet Coppock: Alright. I’m like anybody else. I’m dying for the pocket rockers. I want—I want the aces right up top. But if you don’t have aces, give me five, six and give reasons why you should raise pre four? Hollis Barnhart: Well, the first thing that you want to do is to information. You want to find out the straight for the opponents hands. So I’ll usually a value raise just to find out who’s for real. Another thing is you’re going to get a free card on the next head. Have you ever heard the expression, all checked to the raiser then the next I’ll check to the raiser. Well, once you’ve raised, you are the raiser they’re checking to you, you found out don’t have anything on the flop. Chet Coppock: Don’t you basically know twice around the table? Who the sucker really is? Hollis Barnhart: Well, if it’s—believe me if you’re playing with the nine guys and it’s not eight of them, it’s usually you. Usually it takes me about twice around the horn to find out who the suckers are and they’re usually about—you know, at the nine guys usually about seven of them are don’t know how to play. The other thing that you want to do for raising the pot is if you want to protect your hand. Let’s say you have pair of jacks or a pair of queens, you better get your money in the pot because if the guys holding that ace for the weak ace, ace-four, ace-five, ace-six, and they flop that ace, you are dead with pocket jacks or pocket queens. The fourth thing is to eliminate limpers. There are a lot of guys that just want to hang around, they go ahead they call, that we call them limpers other players like that, and they would have get free look at the flop, you got to get rid of those people. Chet Coppock: Wait up, time out. I can just imagine that people right now saying what are limpers? Hollis Barnhart: Limpers are somebody that just call, call, call, call, that’s the ones you want to raise put a nice little raise and usually three to four times of blind and get that adding the pot. Chet Coppock: So they’re not playing Teddy aggressive, they’re playing scared. Hollis Barnhart: They’re playing—no, just as good catch of flop. Get rid of them before the flop. The other thing that you might want to do, you’ve been some pocket rockets that was ace-ace, you want to protect when you have your best hand put the most value. If you go in to the pot with the best hand, raise the pot. Do not slow play aces, get your money in and the last thing Chet which I love to do is sets up a bluff. I could sit there with a four-five of spades and I’m on the key position like late position on the button. I throw a lot of my chips in there like four to five times of raise, it gets rid of the limpers, they might sit there and hit ace, king, jack, or they might hit club, club, club, and I’m sitting there with a little three, four of nothing and then I set up the bluff, I can now go ahead, they’re checking to me and I could take the pot down. Chet Coppock: Charismatic, dramatically, ultimately a winner. “Harvard” Hollis Barnhart the master all he surveys in Las Vegas Nevada.