THE TRAP

THE TRAP

The good old bear trap. Traps are fundamental to NL HU Hold'em.

The best and most effective trap is not to keep showing how great you are at bluffing in the hope that they end up calling you when you have a monster. The real skill is getting an opponent to overcommit to a pot that you own and then have them bet into you to try and push you off it, or just have so much pot committment that they feel they have no option but to call.

Let me tell you this, if you are pretty sure you are behind and even if you would only have a couple hundered left if you fold, always fold!!!

You see you want them to think - hell i may as well call this now, i have already committed most of my chips... so F*** it i am all in

But NEVER EVER do this, even if you have a chip and a chair left you are still in with a shout. you only need to double your stack 2 or 3 times and you are back in it.