{"id":69,"date":"2010-08-03T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:14:12","slug":"preflop-strategy-unopened-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/preflop-strategy-unopened-pot","title":{"rendered":"Preflop Strategy &#8211; Unopened Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/big-slick.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/big-slick.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-410\" style=\"margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px;\" title=\"big-slick\" src=\"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/big-slick-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pot has not been opened (only the blinds have placed bets) and it is your turn to act.<br \/>\nWhat should you do?<\/p>\n<p>Either fold or raise. Avoid calling the big blind (limping) for reasons described here: <a title=\"Stop limping in unopened pots\" href=\"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/stop-limping-in-unopened-pots\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Stop limping in unopened pots!<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Starting Hand Chart<\/h1>\n<p>For use in No Limit Texas Hold&#8217;em cash games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pot has not been opened (only the blinds have placed bets) and it is your turn to act. What should you do? Either fold or raise. Avoid calling the big blind (limping) for reasons described here: Stop limping in unopened pots! Starting Hand Chart For use in No Limit Texas Hold&#8217;em cash games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holdempokertrainer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}