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Other Fourth Street Concepts

Other fourth poker street concepts worth discussing are detailed below.

In the right situations they can add significantly to your profits.

First, it is important not to fear cinch hands in most situations.

For example, suppose that you have and flop two pair with a small card.

You bet and get two callers, one before you and one after you.

A nine which could give someone a straight comes on fourth street, and the first person bets into you.

How should you play?

well, you certainly should not fold.

Many typical players, if they actually made a straight poker, would try for a check-raise.

Moreover, this person could easily be betting a hand like jacks and nines or a hand like which has given an open end straight draw to go along with his pair.

Consequently, your best play is usually to raise. This may cause the player behind you to fold a hand like KQ, which is to your advantage.

Notice that a king would give him a better two pair and that a ten would give him a straight.

A play that expert players make against mediocre opposition is to bluff on fourth street from an early position into several opponents, all of whom have checked on the flop.

This play works best when the turn card is not an poker overcard or a third suited card.

With little money in the pot your opponents will not want to call with less than top pair, as they will fear you may have been “sandbagging” on the flop.

Meanwhile, it is unlikely that an opponent will have top pair, since he would have bet it.

The expert is getting 2-to-1 or 3-to-1 odds on this play, and it works about half the time as long as the game is not too loose.

In some online poker games this play alone can account for a large portion of your ultimate winnings.

Another idea to keep in mind is that some of your opponents are more likely to be weak if they bet the flop, as opposed to check-raising.

This is because some players tend to save their better hands for check-raising.

So, if you called a bet like this with a weak hand (on the flop), but now pick up something like a flush draw, this may be good opportunity for a semi-bluff raise as long as you are against someone who you believe is capable to throwing a marginal hand away.

By the way, if you make this raise on fourth street, are called, and do not improve on fifth street, you should usually bet again.

Because of the size of the pot your opponent will only need to occasionally fold for this bluff to be correct.