Mastering Professional Poker Strategy: Preflop Poker Strategy

After reading so many insights into Texas Hold'em poker, many of you have also played in many tournaments and offline games, and you must understand that there is no 100% winning poker pro strategy in Texas Hold'em. You can only continuously adjust yourself.

But for novice players, it is really difficult to adjust to the expert level of professional poker strategy, after all, there is no material. If players analyze each hand from the past, it is easy to fall into the trap of hindsight bias, and they cannot complete their own expert-level Texas Hold'em poker strategy.

Don't worry, next we will share a series of expert-level Texas Hold'em preflop poker strategy with you, so that you can understand them, and we will explain them separately for pre-flop and post-flop, so that you can understand them.

Range Setting for Preflop Poker Strategy 

As we all know, the pre-flop range is definitely related to position, because the closer to the front, the less information we get and the more passive we are. Therefore, we need to start with our own high-win rate hands as a starting point, so the range is relatively narrow.

But if it's just that, we don't need to specially write an article about professional poker strategy. We can just say it in one sentence and be done with it.

In fact, pre-flop can be said to be the most difficult part of Texas Hold'em poker, because our actions and range selection before the flop will largely determine our action line after the flop, thereby determining the positive and negative EV values of our actions against opponents in the long term.

Therefore, in my opinion, the most important thing about preflop poker strategy is to start from the actions before the flop.

First of all, let's define what is meant by tightness and looseness. Some people think that tightness and looseness refer to the number of times you are aggressive, but this is a misconception. Tightness and looseness refer to the range of aggression, not the number of times you are aggressive. Generally speaking, people with a wider range tend to be more aggressive, but a person who is aggressive more often is not necessarily loose. This point should be noted.

Generally, strategies will suggest that we play tight in early positions and loose in late positions, but this will limit us when we are in early positions. Therefore, expert-level Texas Hold'em poker strategy does not recommend such a simple approach.

Professional Poker Strategy: Considerations for Preflop Range

To determine our preflop poker strategy action considerations, several factors need to be taken into account:

1. Position
2. Our position compared to other players' positions
3. VPIP
4. Hand strength

Being in an early position may tend to be passive, but we can also reveal some of our strong hands to make flat calls, hide our hand strength, and take action after the flop. Note that Texas Hold'em professional poker strategy suggests that we must be balanced, not just have a few hands with this action. Below, let's look at an example:
UTG limps, middle position calls, button raises to 6BB, small blind calls, big blind folds, UTG 3-bets to 18BB.

Here, UTG should not only do this when they have Aces or Kings, because if they do, it would make it easy for opponents to narrow down our range. Assuming both players behind have 200BB, this move could easily lead to opponents calling with middle cards, which is clearly unfavorable for us.

Therefore, Texas Hold'em professional poker strategy tells us that we should continue to be aggressive when holding hands like AX, KX, and pairs from J to 9, balancing our range in this way to maintain our aggression and make it difficult for opponents to judge whether we are betting for value or bluffing.

Our position compared to other players' positions determines whether we can easily get value or need to pay others. Here, "paying" means that because opponents have a certain range of bluffs, our call is not based on a certain range but is still a payment.

The above is our sharing of expert-level preflop poker strategy this time. Since this time we explained the considerations for the pre-flop range regarding position and position compared to other players, the next article will discuss VPIP and hand combinations, with more examples to help you understand the thought process behind determining a preflop poker strategy for each range. See you next time.

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