High stakes regular, magician, pageant queen, and CoinPoker ambassador Melika Razavi loves hitting the cash game tables. To give our community some insight into her pot-winning strategies, Melika will walk you through two great hands step-by-step.<\/b><\/p>\n94s Heads-Up\u00a0– Enneye Open to 6000CHP<\/b><\/h2>\n
I defend with 94s. It\u2019s a hand that is too good to fold if the open size is 3x or less, and it’s a hand that is too bad to 3bet since you can’t get a straight with it. A hand I\u2019d much rather 3-bet bluff with is 96s, 97s or 98s. <\/span><\/p>\n These hands have higher equity, and in 3bet pots I want to have hands that I can continue barrel with on the turn when I pick up a flush or straight draw.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s a standard check call since I obviously don’t have AA, QQ or AQ in my calling range pre-flop. Therefore I am careful with check-raising flops where I can’t represent a strong hand.<\/span><\/p>\n My opponent won’t believe I am strong and if I, for example. had an Ace, A3 or 33 I would also check-call to protect my check-calling range from being just bluffs and draws.<\/span><\/p>\n A double flush-draw so I check-raised to represent 45, A3, A2, 33 and 22 for value. I really like this play since I\u2019m blocking my opponent from having 45 by having a 4 in my hand. I also have lots of equity with a straight draw and gutshot, and I can’t really win the pot when I miss the draw after check-calling the turn out of position and river goes check check. <\/span><\/p>\n My plan was to bet the river on spades, diamonds and a 5 (straight) since I will make the same play with some of my diamond draws. By doing so, I get my opponent to fold his draws that would beat me in showdown if I give up or check-call the turn. <\/span><\/p>\n I also expect my opponent to give up most rivers with one pair and maybe even two pairs when diamonds hit and I bet. If the river is an irrelevant blank card then, depending on what I think about my opponent and the game flow, I may decide to bluff anyway. <\/span><\/p>\n If river is an Ace or a king I would definitely give up ,since those cards hit my opponents range better and therefore he is more likely to call. <\/span><\/p>\n Keep an eye out for Melika on the CoinPoker cash game tables, and keep an eye on our socials for more live streams and hand analyses coming soon.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" High stakes regular, magician, pageant queen, and CoinPoker ambassador Melika Razavi loves hitting the cash game tables. To give our community some insight into her pot-winning strategies, Melika will walk you through two great hands step-by-step. 94s Heads-Up\u00a0– Enneye Open to 6000CHP I defend with 94s. It\u2019s a hand that is too good to fold … High Stakes Hand Analysis with Pro Player Melika Razavi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[70,82,102,121,123],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategy","tag-high-stakes-poker","tag-melika-razavi","tag-online-poker","tag-poker-hand-analysis","tag-poker-hands"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Flop<\/b><\/h3>\n
The Turn<\/b><\/h3>\n
The River<\/b><\/h3>\n