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OK this idea relies on bad poker players, or call-machines as they are sometimes referred to. The type of players who will play ace-rag far too strongly.

This isn’t a surefire method, but it SHOULD work more often than it fails. If it DOES fail, sometimes you’ll be able to bow out of the hand and watch some fireworks.

Its relatively move-heavy, but not entirely ridiculous.

Its your deal. Fantastic. Cull 3 aces. Or 4. 4 would be great, but its unnecessary work. If you happen to be able to, then this works even better.

Either way, get your 3 aces on top. Keep them there in any way you wish. Now when you deal, the first three players will receive (hopefully) ace-rag. If they get AK, AQ or AJ etc then you aren’t screwed. But you might be. Chortle.

Now you rely on lady luck to give you a relatively playable hand such as 10J, JQ, KQ, etc. Now if you can, you can peek the flop or something, or the top card and deal a second or something which can help you on the luck thing.

At any rate, I’m babbling. The basic idea here is that it is very unlikely that any of the 3 people with ace-rag will hit their ace; impossible if you managed 4 aces instead of 3. Bad players, however, will play their hand and call your raises simply because they hold an ace. But they’re dead to a pair. So get a raise in preflop and you SHOULD get 3 callers.

Now if you hit a pair, it is likely you will have the best hand because none of the suckers will hit their ace. If they hit their rag then they are in more trouble because that ace will keep them fishing with their single crappy pair.

You don’t want much aggressive betting, but you do need to keep putting money in the pot. You’ll get more callers than you deserve and you SHOULD win the hand with a pair or queens or something. The reason why the win will be good is because you can count on getting lots more callers than you usually would, so your small bets get paid off massively. Lots of small amounts add up quite quickly.

It seemed a pretty subtle method for building a stack, and so I thought I’d post it.

Of course, there ARE pitfalls. But as long as you UNDERSTAND that, it shouldn’t be a massive problem. If someone who you know to have an ace is betting out pre-flop, you can assume he’s got a nice kicker attached and you may just want to fold. If an ace does indeed hit the flop, just fold and watch all 3 players defend their pair of aces. If the board pairs, there’s a chance someone has trip rags, so fold. If you don’t hit a pair, folding could be wise. If 2,3,4,5 hits the board, just make sure you have a 6.

The beauty of this is that you don’t put much in the pot for the possibility of a large gain, so folding isn’t too painful. Nor is losing for the suckers.

That way, it won’t bring much heat, if any.

Clever, ey?

Perhaps partially.

Don’t cheat, guys and gals, just educate yourself.

–Arthur–