stevenbcortez

i've always heard about people winning EXTRA bets in Limit Hold'Em.

i don't understand what that means.
anyone help?

dsvw56

By winning extra bets, it means you play a hand differently in a way that wins you more money than it would have if you played it some other way. A good example of this is not raising with a strong hand in order to keep other players in the pot.

EX>

Hero is on the Button with KK
Limps to Hero
Hero Raises
3 Players call

Flop :
K-6-2

Check
Check
Bet

(Now here is an opportunity to try to win "Extra Bets". Traditional FL wisdom says ram and jam when you got the best of it, but by raising here we stand to lose the two players who have already checked. By just calling there's a good chance they'll call too.)

Hero Calls
Call
Call

You've made an extra bet here because if you had raised and scared the two checkers out, you would have only gained an extra 1 bet in the flop instead of two.

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