High Limit Holdem Strategy

High limit hold’em is not an easy game. You will need a wealth of poker knowledge, some guts and quite the bankroll to have success at these limits. Additionally there are several differences between low to middle limit games and high limit games. This article will look at some of the differences and offer strategy for coping with them. An exploratory jaunt into the local $150/$300 game to “see what its all about” is about as bad of an idea as challenging Stu Ungar to a game of heads up hold’em, its just not something you want to do until you are 100% certain that you are ready.

Ten Players Is A Luxury In High Limit Texas Holdem

Let’s face it; high limit games involve a lot of money. The amount of people interested in betting $200 to $400 during every round of a poker game are few and far between. It’s a lot of money and because of this, not as many people play the games. What this means is that more often than not you will be faced with short handed situations. You need to adapt to this and play accordingly:

- Blinds will kill you in a high limit, short handed game. Significantly reduce the value of a starting hand and play it as such. K6 offsuit is a playable hand, raise with it. A9 suited is even better. The point is you will need to be ultra aggressive and protect your chips, or the blinds (and the other players) will eat them.

- Re-raise aggressive players who act before you. Sklansky importantly points out that this shorthanded tactic is not necessarily prudent to the hand you are currently playing; rather it sends a message to the aggressive bettor that you will not dump your hand simply because he raises you in position.

Early Position In High Stakes Texas Holdem

While middle limit and small stakes games afford some opportunities to limp or call from early position, this is generally a bad idea in high limit games. Raising is kind of the “industry standard” in high limit play and a limp from early position will rarely, if ever, afford you that cheap flop you were looking for. Raise or fold, simple as that.

Moving Up In Limits

Playing high stakes FL Texas Holdem can be a daunting idea at first. All of the sudden you are betting hundreds of dollars with each throw of the chips. It is important to keep this in perspective. Although the amount of money your chips represent has changed, the units have not. If you’re playing $200/$400 it’s two black chips before the turn and four black chips after the turn, just like it was two white chips before the turn and four white chips after the turn when you played $2/$4. The point is to get away from the money and keep the game in a relative perspective. If you are not able to do this, then high stakes Texas Hold’em is something you should stay away from.

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