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A player will win the pot if they have the best five-card hand at the showdown. Unlike our\u00a0real money poker\u00a0games, since there is nothing at stake, you can be comfortable learning the ropes of the game and all the rules of Hold’em. When playing heads up games (vs just one opponent), you typically need to play an extremely wide range of starting hands, especially when on the button. The betting options are similar to pre-flop, however if nobody has previously bet, players may check, passing the action to the next active player clockwise.<\/p>\n
I would play really loose and aggressive for a while, then change it up a bit. In the early years of my career, I felt like a lot of my game was going back and forth between different strategies. After 3-betting with 7h, 7d, Petrangelo ran a three-street bluff on a 9s, qc, ad, jc, 8h runout. When the dust cleared, he had all of the chips in play \u2013 laying claim to the $1,125,000 first-place prize and the Super High Roller Bowl XI title, his sixth on the PGT.<\/p>\n