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Thread: Gap Concept

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    Gap Concept

    When to Raise With a Poker Hand You Wouldn’t Normally Play

    In poker tournament play – depending on table conditions – it can be a good idea to implement ‘the Gap Concept’. In an absolute nutshell, it means that your hand value goes up as more people fold towards you.

    So a hand you could raise with after three or four folds to you might not be a hand that you would even call a raise with.

    Let’s say that you are holding pocket fives in middle position around a six seater table in a live poker tournament. If someone before you raises then depending on who they are, you may not normally call this raise and seriously consider folding. But by using the gap concept if three or more players have folded to you then you should consider a raise here as your hand has now gone up in strength. This will help clear the field and build the pot, not to mention that when you turn over your pocket fives it will keep people guessing in future. One note on this, if others at the table are also aware of the gap concept then watch out for a re-raise.

    So to summarise, it’s raising with a poker hand that you wouldn’t normally call a raise with if a ‘gap’ has developed in front of you.

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    here is a link to the video that explains it properly :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhGf_DBtTGA

    THE GAP CONCEPT:
    It states that you need a better hand to call a raise with then if you were making the raise yourself. An example is that you are in middle position (one of the middle players to act) and you have KQ suited. If someone raises before you, you should throw this hand away, because someone has shown strength and you need a
    stronger hand than normal to compensate for this. If the raiser is loose, you can lower your standards. If the raiser is tighter than normal, you'll need to raise your standards for that position dramatically.


 

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