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Establish your online Texas Holdem Poker persona

To raise or not to raise: that is how you develop your online persona and character at Lucky Hog.
Aggressive, conservative, wily or foolish: your persona is usually defined by your raise and fold strategy.
In online Texas Holdem Poker games, there are many opportunities to raise before the flop. However, your persona – and in many instances success –depends on what you do after you discover your hand does not connect with the community cards in any way.
There many types of online Texas Holdem Poker personas.
For some, the strategy is to be on tilt: lay wildly or recklessly, playing too many hands, trying wild bluffs, raising with bad hands, etc.
Others Lucky Hog online poker players fold at the slightest sense of trouble.
For many players, the strategy is to hold the line: consistent, unwavering aggression. Their goal being, keep opponents guessing and worried: are you bluffing or are you holding a nut straight.
There is a risk in all strategies and personas. In the latter case, a Lucky Hog player who does a lot of hyper-aggressive raising, betting, and bluffing can be labeled a maniac and avoided by other Texas Holdem Poker players. In gaming lingo, a maniac is not a good player, but is simply doing a lot of gambling.
However, strategic mixing of your persona - such as occasionally acting like a maniac and other times being overly cautious – can confuse opponents and can make you quite a dangerous player.
Variety is the spice of life. And, in online in Texas Holdem Poker games at Lucky Hog, it can be the difference between winning and losing.

Amazing Lucky Hog Poker Video: Five Pocket Pairs off The Flop

You gotta watch this video.
This is a remarkable video - and a remarkable read by Denis O’Mahoney.

Let’s crunch in the numbers – and the odds. If you are dealt a pair of aces in the flop, you have a 31 percent chance of winning a 10-seater hand of Texas hold’em. Dealt a pair of Kings – AKA Cowboys - you have a 26.02 per cent chance of winning a hand of 10-seater Texas hold’em. Two pocket Queens will give you a 22.03 per cent chance of winning while a pocket pair of Jacks in a 10-seater game will see you sitting with a 19.09 per cent chance of winning the Texas hold’em hand.
Great odds, but when five pocket pairs are dealt – WOW!