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Introduction: Playing in Other
Non-Standard Games

In the last two sections we have covered what can be termed as two non-standard games loose games and short-handed games.

There are also other non-standard forms that we wish to address.

This needs to be done because if you play a fair amount of holdem it is inevitable that you will occasionally find yourself in one of these games.

First however, let’s take a moment to quantify what may be called a “standard game.”

Defining this more clearly, a standard game is one of standard structure (blinds and bet sizes)

which is played moderately tight, and includes perhaps two or three fairly good poker players.

Obviously, this is not always the case.

Sometimes the game may be wild; sometimes it may be extremely tight.

In addition, someone may voluntarily put up an extra large blind – known as a straddle so that he can “gamble.” Finally, the structure may be “spread limit,” where bets can be any amount between (and including) two specified limits.

All of these non-standard games require strategy changes for your play to remain optimal.

This doesn’t mean that you should disregard everything we have already covered.

In fact, the material we have presented so far should be your foundation to winning play online poker, no matter what game you may be playing.

Nevertheless there are several additional situations that still must be discussed, and in the chapters that follows, we provide some guidelines to help you in some of these other “non-standard” situations.