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Preflop Basics – Taking control with aggression

Now that you have a handle on starting hand selection, you already have an edge in most microstakes games. If you’re looking to drastically increase that edge, and consequentially your profits, learning to use preflop aggression properly is key.

Preflop aggression is often regarded as the first ’secret concept’ of poker strategy. This may seem like a bold statement. A ’secret concept’… How cheesy. Surely, lots of players know about preflop aggression, particularly those playing higher limits.

Preflop Basics – No limit hold’em hand selection

The basic goal of a poker player is, or should be, to always make decisions with a positive expected value. In other words, to minimize the amount of money one puts into pots while “behind”, and to maximize value from pots in which one is “ahead”. Many beginning micro stakes grinders find this concept elusive. The main objection being, that most players at the lowest limits are so bad, no amount of strategy can ever prevent opponents from getting lucky and winning.