Poker Schooling
When you think of “Poker Schooling” you
typically think of coaching or a more experienced
player teaching you how to beat the game. This term
however is somewhat the opposite in a sense that
it can relate to those typical badbeat stories we
all tell happened to us. Poker schooling
is when a bad call isn’t
necessarily a bad call at all given the right conditions
at the table.
Simply put, its when a player makes what would
normally be a very bad call a good call based on
pot odds determined by the other players at the
table who also make bad calls. If you understand
pot odds, than you should be able to relate to this.
The way poker schooling works is by giving the players
who are last to act the correct pot odds to make
a terrible call a great one and in some cases they
get better odds than anyone else sitting at the
poker sites
table. This is because all of the other bad
player’s
have already contributed enough into the pot that
calling with a hand like small pockets in LP has
value.
You can still beat these players but it becomes
very difficult making the correct decisions when
all the other players are forcing bad plays to win.
How do you use schooling to your advantage? First,
you will always have the correct odds to chase your
draws and will get paid off for it quite nicely
since these tables tend to have pots which are significantly
larger than the average table. This also means that
when you have the nuts you are sure to rake a killing
from a table that schools, simply because they won’t
fold. No matter how much money goes into the pot,
your opponents are 99% likely to call. Use that
to your advantage. They can’t
resist the temptation to see if they will win. If
you don’t
have the made hand in the game, but instead you’re
holding top pair do not raise. The odds that you
will be outdrawn increase in situations like this
and you’re
not about to get anyone to fold. So the next time
you are at a table where its one bad beat after
another, flip the roles and try and use that situation
to your advantage.
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