Poker strategies: Raising (Part 1)
One of the basic moves in playing a game of poker is making a raise. Most new poker players think that you only make a raise if you want to win a bigger pot with a hand that you think is the best. But in actuality you can use a raise for a variety of tactical reasons that may not be so apparent or obvious. To drive out opponents when you have the best hand. When you raise to drive your opponents out of that hand, what you are in fact doing is to cut down their odds. Actually, there are even times when you may sometimes cut their odds so drastically that your hope is that they will call instead of fold after you raise. To bluff or semi-bluff. Raising as a pure bluff with a hand that does not have a chance of winning is a very tricky play and should not be attempted very often. You should only perform a raise to bluff or semi-bluff when there are no more cards to come (for the pure bluff), you failed to make the hand you wanted but want your opponent to think that you did, or you want to win the pot that is on the table (for the semi-bluff). To get a free card. If you are the last to act in the round, you can raise in order to get a free card (a free look at the card). You should also realize though that a free card is not free. The card’s cost is your raise, so before you do this determine if the amount of the raise would warrant the move.
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