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I hope you successfully accomplished the assignment in the last chapter. If you memorized the groups of starting hands, and you followed the advice about calling and raising, you should have had good results, considering your level of experience and understanding of the game. Even if you were not a big winner, you should have noticed a few things about the games you were in.

You might have noticed that you were playing fewer hands than most of the other players in the game. You might also have noticed that you threw away a lot of hands before the flop that would have been winners. Maybe you realized that when you were in a hand, your cards were probably higher than your opponents' hands, on average. When you all missed your hands, you probably won the pot with ace-high a few times. Finally, you might also have realized that the other players respected your play, and they didn't try to run over you too much.

There are twenty-six hands in Group 1, thirty-two hands in Group 2, twenty-eight hands in Group 3, and fifty-six hands in Group 4. This adds up to 142 total hands, which is 10.71% of all possible hands. That means that you were playing about one out of every eight hands, not counting the blinds. That's pretty tight play for your average low limit game. My main purpose in having you play this tight is to allow you to sit in the game and learn it without being exposed to large fluctuations in your bankroll.

The other purpose of having you play this tight is to show you how a high limit player or semi-pro would play before the flop. This style of play is called tight/ aggressive, and it usually works very well in any hold 'em game. It's not the most profitable style of play at all times in all games, but it is a great way to start when you're first learning the game.

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