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Bet Sizing With Tristan Wade

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Tristan Wade

Tristan Wade is a live, online grinder who plays under the screen name "cre8ive." He is also an instructor at Deepstacks University where he teaches everything from the basics to high-level strategy. Wade sat down with PokerNews to talk about bet-sizing.

When you begin with a group of students, what are the big and obvious mistakes they are making with bet sizes?

Well the initial bet-sizing mistakes they make are preflop. They don't keep their bets within the 2 to 4 x the blind range, or keep their bets consistent. After the flop, most amateur players aren't aware of the size of...

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A lot of basics, but very good. I like the questions and the responses. Certainly good advice to consider when acting pre and post flop. The notes on continuation betting were helpful for me. Thanks!

03-02-2011 10:26

DrudReport (User Offline) Wrote 58 posts
since 07-15-2009

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Great article - all useful stuff. I have a question:

Continuation betting: "If there are four or five players you should make a bigger continuation bet in most cases..."
Would you actually advocate continuation betting in this sort of situation? Surely much depends on the texture of the board on the flop, i.e. 3 to a flush etc and this has to be a significant factor in any situation?

03-02-2011 15:03

fatbloke2 (User Offline) Wrote 7 posts
since 06-09-2008

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