Most Profitable Lines in Hold’Em

Introduction

When playing Hold’Em, there are definitely some spots where taking a specific line is far superior than others. In this post, I will try to expose some of those lines based on statistics taken from my own database in Holdem Manager 2.

For this sample, I only consider hands at the 2NL stake level.

Let’s get to it:

Continuation Bet on a 3-Bet Pot

If there is a spot where your image and range look super strong, it would most likely be when you put a continuation bet on the flop after 3-Betting preflop. Let’s look at the stats behind it:

This filter only considers hands where the action ended on the flop, to determine the percentage of time I win the pot with a CBet. As we can see, a very high % of success is achieved just by taking this line. It seems to be even better if there is an Ace or King on the flop, as villain will be in a tough spot if he/she does not hold that card.

Betting Turn After Checked Flop

Another profitable spot is to bet the turn when the flop is checked by everyone, specially if we are the preflop raiser:

This one is a killer too!!! Seems like delaying a CBet really pays of in the long term if our opponent shows weakness.

Double Barreling

This one have to be well thought, however, even filtering through all my hands, no matter the previous actions or the hand I hold, it seems to be very profitable:

At least for a 65% win rate, it is not a bad line to take at all.

Betting River After Calling Flop CBet and Checking Turn

Once again, a very profitable spot, as most of the time villain have shown weakness after Cbetting and not firing another barrel at the turn, specially if scare cards have hit the board on the river:

As we can see, there are many spots in which we can extract value just from betting after showing strength yourself or sensing weakness in your opponent.

Please let me know what you think in the comments!!

If you have more examples of profitable spots, please share with everyone 🙂