Introduction

• The special characteristics of unraised pots
  
• Play your made hands correctly in these situations
• Protection vs. pot control
  

Many players only have their eye on the big pots and the most profitable situations. However, these players often miss the fact that you can get a lot of value out of small pots as well if you look into it more closely.

As a disciplined poker player it's only natural that you would like to get to know all the facets of the game and that is why you also have to be able to deal with small, unraised pots.

This article should show the best way to react in these situations, how you can rate your hand strength and which possible lines are available.

Since many of these small / unraised pots often occur at full ring tables, you will only find FR examples in this article. The same applies here as well: post-flop thoughts also correspond to the shorthanded game!