Checking When You Should Bet
This is mistake because, sometimes you have a mediocre hand, like flush draw, OESD or middle pair. By checking you make a mistake, because your opponent can bet after you and you will need to call. So its better you bet, that way your opponent can fold, you can bet again and show strength and steal pot.
Betting When You Should Check
Mistakes like trying a hopeless bluff or betting when all cards are out and you can get called only if your beaten. This mistake is not so cardinal like first mistake, but avoid it.
Calling When You Should Fold
Common mistake every new player is making. Mistake like calling for a second pair and board have obvious flush draw or calling at the river a pot size bet when its impossible you could have a best hand.
Calling When You Should Raise
Worst mistake. This mistake happens when a player try to slowplay in a scary flop. You should Raise if you really don’t have a monster. Calling instead of Raising is big mistake in heads up play since raise have this advantages: your opponent may fold, your raise might get you a free card on the next round, your raise might enable you to steal the pot.
Folding When You Should Call
This mistake is often made by good players than bad ones. This mistakes occurs at river, if you dont have best hand and opponents bet small amount and you fold. Many times players bluff with air at river if none show any streng during the play. So calling a small bet at river with a mediocre hand is OK.
Folding When You Should Raise
This mistake is not so often since it don’t happen so frequently. This is effective as check raise bluffing a good player. You think he didn’t hit a monster hand and go for a check raise, often this good tight players will fold, but you need to have good reads on them.
Raising When You Should Call
Rare error. It happens in multi-way pots when all the cards are out. If player on your right bets and you are sure you have him beaten and figure that he will call your raise, but if he reraises you are probably beaten and players behind you will probably overcall with a worse hand than you if you just call. So calling is better option if your hand is really a winning hand.
Raising When You Should Fold
This error is made by expert players who knows that proper play is Fold or Raise and calling is out of question in many situations. Even though raising is better than calling, folding is sometimes still better.
David Sklansky writes about this mistakes at twoplustwo.com
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