What exactly am I talking about when I refer to automated betting in poker? Well before you go and get hold of the wrong end of the stick by thinking that I am talking about bots and using bots then you would be wrong. By “automation” then what I am essentially referring to is a process of making your poker decisions in an automated way and the advantages that come with that.

Someone once said and I cannot remember who that “simplicity was the true genius”.

Some years ago when aggressive players were dominating many games then their pre-flop raising was being carried through with continuation bets.

Your attitude to risk to a large extent will be governed by events that have happened before you even knew how to play poker. It is difficult to change this and even if you try and play for far higher stakes, you will never become totally comfortable in doing so.

There are no two players in poker who will have exactly the same view of the game. When you think about this for a moment then you will see what I mean here.

Let us say that you open raise from the cut-off with the Ks-9s and the big blind calls you. The raise was to 3.5bb and the big blinds call places 7.5bb in the pot.

Limit hold’em is one of the most widely played forms of poker in the world and it is also one of the most difficult as well. In no other form of poker is aggression so rewarded as it is in limit hold’em.