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If you love poker, you probably have at least a couple of buddies that share your passion. You gather once a week, have some beers with snacks, and spend hours playing your favorite game. It’s never about the money in such an environment. It’s a matter of pride, and of course, the right to brag until the next time you meet on the table.
The casual nature of home games makes them different from the play in a casino or online. Usually, all players are way looser, there’s more bluffing, and people mostly have fun. If you want to beat them, you need the right strategy. In this article, I can give you seven tips that would help most of you defeat your friends in poker games.
Before I begin, I would like to say that I exclude home games that are actually pretty serious. Like, hiring a house with security and collecting rake serious. I will be talking mostly about games between friends, where the stakes are small, and the main point is to enjoy a good night with your pals.Don’t Be Afraid to Bet Big with Strong Hands
In standard poker games, it’s not always easy to get the best out of your strong hands. Sometimes you have to slow play or value bet to get something at all. Most players are cautious with their money, and unless they hit something too, your best hands go to waste.
Fortunately, this is not the case when you play home games. Most of your buddies will chase draws, call with bottom pairs, and all kinds of trash. Also, they will tend to overplay hands like a top pair with a weak kicker all the time.
This is why you shouldn’t be afraid to put on some pressure and bet big. After all, your main target with a strong hand is to build a large pot and win a lot of money. You have the perfect conditions to achieve that, especially pre-flop and on the flop. People are more than willing to pay too much with mediocre hands in these phases of the game.
There are some exceptions, of course. If you are facing only one or two opponents, you could try to slow down a bit, especially if they play tight.Avoid Bluffing
This one is connected to the previous tip, and the logic behind it is very similar. The players you’re facing in home games will be loose and won’t really care if they are going to lose a couple of bucks. It’s about having fun, and the action is the best way to enjoy poker.
Obviously, you should have that in mind when you consider making a bluff. I’m not saying you should never do so, but be careful. Chances are, someone will call you with a semi-decent hand.
If you insist on bluffing, here are a couple of things that will help you recognize if the timing is right:
*Number of players: if you are facing more than two players, you should never bluff. If the number is two exactly, you should almost never bluff. Being heads-up is the best option.
*Street: as already mentioned, the flop and the pre-flop are where people are simply not folding. If they miss on the turn or on the river, you could actually get them to fold every now and then.
*Position: always bluff when playing last. This will give you the chance for a second or even third barrel more often if your initial attempt fails.
Still, bluffing is almost always wrong in home games, so make sure to avoid it most of the time.See Many Cheap Flops with Speculative Hands
Hands like low pairs or suited connectors work best when you face a lot of opponents. The reason is simple. When they hit something, it’s usually big, and you want many people playing.
This is why home games are the perfect environment for such hands. You will often be able to see a cheap flop. Furthermore, a lot of people will be willing to pay good money to see your sets, straights, and flushes.
You should be trying to reach the flop for the price of a couple of blinds max, especially from late position. This will give you the opportunity to see many flops, and sometimes even one big hit could be enough in home games. Getting a straight or flush against a couple of players has brought me my biggest pots.
That doesn’t mean you should try to reach the flop at all costs, though. Remember, the trick is to get there cheaply.Don’t Try to Steal the Blinds Too Much
Stealing the blinds is essential in most serious poker games where you are looking for all the small edges you can find. They help you win some cash every now and then, but also balance your ranges. Your opponents will never know if you are stealing or holding a strong hand. This helps a lot in the long run.
Well, forget about the first paragraph if you’re playing against your friends. First of all, it would be close to impossible to steal the blinds. People will be limping, calling raises…you almost never have a good opportunity to do it.
On top of that, your image doesn’t really matter. Okay, if you play like a nit or like a maniac, most people will notice. Everything in between appears the same to the regular guy who’s had a couple of beers and doesn’t care much.
Finally, it’s pointless to steal the blinds because that’s simply not the way to beat your buddies. The big pots and the major mistakes are the main factors in such situations. There will be situations where you can win a couple of buy-ins, and that will make the difference at the end of the day.Don’t Compete for Every Pot
Since you will see all kinds of stupid plays when going against your pals, you will be tempted to contest most of the pots. It’s only natural because every single hand feels like an opportunity to win big.
While this is true to an extent, it doesn’t mean you should play trash and chase stuff like gutshots or backdoor flushes. If you start doing it, you’re no different than anyone else on the table.
The key to home games is to find the best balance between taking enough chances and not making too many mistakes. To achieve that, you should restrict yourself from trying to win each and every hand.Don’t Overplay Strong Preflop Hands
The likes of aces and kings are the strongest pre-flop hands and might bring you a lot of money. However, they are just a pair if they don’t improve after the flop. And since you will often face multiple opponents on the flop, you should always be careful.
Don’t overcommit. The best approach would be to play big pairs very aggressively before the flop. It will give you a chance to actually narrow down the field to only one or two players. At the same time, you will be building a large pot while you’re ahead. These are your two main goals, and it’s worth the risk winning a small pot if everybody folds.
If the opposite happens and you face a couple of people on the flop, you should slow the tempo. Check what the board is, evaluate your chances, and don’t feel obliged to go all the way on only a single pair, even if it is aces.Don’t Get (Too) Drunk
All the tips so far have been related to your poker strategy, so I decided to close the list with a more general bit of advice. Having a drink or two is obviously part of the experience when playing with friends. There’s nothing wrong with that, unless you go too far.
First of all, getting wasted is rarely a good idea. If you mix it with gambling, it gets even worse. It will drastically reduce your chances of beating your friends.
On top of that, you could end up being the annoying guy that spoils the fun of the whole group. Stuff like not waiting for your turn, spilling stuff on the table, and becoming grumpy are not cool. Don’t be that guy.Final Words
The tips in this post should certainly help you beat your buddies. However, don’t forget that home games are meant to be fun. Don’t take them too seriously and don’t get obsessed with winning. This will ruin the whole thing for you and your pals.
You can enjoy the evening, be casual about it, and still go home ahead most of the time.Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.The home poker game is a tricky beast. You have to walk a fine line between socializing and competitive gaming. The best players are able to gab all night long, down a six pack and still walk away with a pocketful of 20s they can toss on to the dresser to impress the wife at the end of the night. Here are 7 tips from a semi-professional to help you join that elite league of repeat winners:
If you walk in the door simply looking to hang out with your buddies and drink a few IPAs, that’s great. Totally fine. Just don’t expect to walk home with part of the pot. Poker is combat with cards and chips. Would you walk onto a battlefield half-drunk and casually expect to emerge victorious? Same thing for the green-felt arena. You’ve got to want to win to even have a shot. Make your decision before you enter the host’s house as to what you want to get out of the night.
With ultra-low blinds, and micro-stakes, your average home game has the tendency to trickle on into the wee hours of the night. How many times have you seen a friend do well early on, only to lose concentration around midnight and shove all-in on a weak hand? You have to have the stamina of Ron Jeremy to make it through a home game. Your enemies will be beer, high-carb foods like pizza and chips and a game that moves at a snail’s pace, especially if guys are periodically getting up from the table to check on sports scores. Hang in there. Victory by attrition is how you win a home game.
You don’t necessarily need to wait for Pocket Aces, but early in a home tournament you should try to hold out for the big hands. Can you win the occasional pot on a sexy suited connector like 7-8 of diamonds? Of course. But that’s the exception, not the rule. Most players can’t help themselves and succumb to the temptation of playing a shitty hand just to ‘see what happens’. Before you know it, you’ll have played a half-dozen of those shitty hands and reduced your stack so much, that by the time you get your good hand, you don’t have enough chips to build a big pot. To really dominate a home game you want to hold out for those big pairs early on.
One rule of pokers that most pros know and most amateurs don’t is that the number of players in the game affects which types of hands you should play. As stated above, you’re going to want to fold small connectors when there are 8 or more players at the table. But once you get down to 7, 6 or less, you can start opening up your range of hands. A King/4 Suited is worth a gamble with less players, because even if you miss the flush, your king might still be good. Whereas with more players at the table, that king will probably lose to a king with a bigger kicker.
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The single biggest mistake people make when playing a home poker game is not raising before entering the pot. Sure, these are you buddies. And there’s a lot of pressure at a home game to ‘play nice’ and simply limp in. Don’t do it. It’s not that you’re being rude to your friends. It’s about self-preservation. If you start off with an A/Q and you simply limp into the pot by calling the blinds, you’re opening yourself up to getting beat by all types of hands that might limp in behind you. The guy with the 4/5 offsuit is probably going to play “just for the hell of it”. Don’t let him. Raise it up, and make him pay to play. As a general rule of thumb, your raises should be 3xs the big blind almost every single time you enter a pot. Even if you don’t understand pot odds, you can understand this: the more people who play the hand with you, the worse your odds of winning. So thin the herd and raise the blinds every time you are the first bettor.
Phil Hellmuth, pictured here, is one of the most successful poker players in tournament poker history. Why? Among other skills, he’s a master of the fold. Phil will lay down hand after hand, sometimes even when he thinks he’s ahead, so as not to jeopardize his tournament life. Better to make a bad fold, then to get knocked out, is his strategy. And it’s paid off.
Consider when he laid down a huge hand before the flop when his opponent pushed all in. Phil folded his big pair only to learn that his opponent had Pocket Aces, also known as bullets. Hellmuth turned to his wife in the audience and uttered this now legendary poker quote: “Honey, honey, I was supposed to go broke on that hand. But they forgot one thing: I can dodge bullets, baby!”
Although you don’t to emulate his temper, you should follow Hellmuth’s lead when it comes to laying down hands.How To Win At Poker With Friends Win
Most home games allows players to rebuy pretty late in the tournament, so that somebody doesn’t wind up sitting on the couch alone watching a college Basketball game the whole night. Take advantage. Especially if others don’t. If you get down to the final 4 and they let you buy back in, you should. That’s something that would never be allowed late in a professional tournament. A late rebuy absolutely favors the person buying in, even if you start with a severe disadvantage in chips. If you can buy in and be given 10x or more chips than the big blind, you should play (example: It’s 11pm, the blinds are 250/500, and every player is given 5,000 worth of chips when they buy in. That means you are getting 10x the big blind to play. That’s tight, but you should still do it, because the cost of buying back in is cheap compared to the potential winnings).How To Win At Poker With Friends
If you’re the kind of guy that shows up at poker night looking to have some fun and drink some beers, but then find yourself down in the dumps when you go home empty-handed, it may be time to start taking the game a little more seriously. You can still have fun, but focus on winning before you even walk in the door and be prepared to stay late without making stupid mistakes around midnight. Stick to your bigger hands early on, but once players start getting knocked out, open up your range of hands a little more. But most of all? Raise when you enter a pot. If you don’t close the door and prevent crappy hands from entering the pot, you have no one to blame but yourself when they beat you. Put some of these strategies into practice, and you’ll soon experience that joyous feeling of waking your wife up at 1am to show her that thick money roll you just hauled in from your buddies. Like a Neanderthal dragging a plump antelope back to the cave, you have gone out into the world and returned with your prize. You are the man. Now stand there at the edge of the bed like a boss and shower her with singles, fives and tens.
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