When Should You Raise and where play poker online
Posted on February 28, 2008
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• You feel you have the best chance at winning the pot.
• You want your opponents to fold their drawing hands, or make a mistake by
calling.
• You are getting good pot odds to try a bluff or semi-bluff.
• You want to try for a free card.
• You want to determine the strength of your hand relative to your opponents.
One goal in poker is to give your opponents opportunities to make mistakes. When
your opponents are correct to call just a single bet, raising is sometimes a good
strategy to decrease your opponents’ pot odds and force them to cither fold or make
a mistake by calling.
Bad beat hands are not nearly as disastrous as most poker players think. When an
opponent draws to a hand that he shouldn’t, yet still wins, think of all the extra bets
you are earning on the times when he doesn’t hit his hand.
How is a good hand supposed to look?
Nothing: The player with the highest card winns. If two players has the same highest card you count the seccond highest card and so on.
One pair: If two players has the same value pair you count the highest sidecard.
Two pairs: The player with the highest value pairs winns.
Triss: The highest triss winns.
Straight: Five cards in a ladder with different colours. The player with the highest straight winns. The ace can be used as both highest or lowest card in a straight.
Flush: Five cards in the same colour. If two players have a flush the player with the highest card in the flush winns.
Full house: One triss and one pair. A higher triss beats a lower if two players have a full house.
Fourth: Four cards of the same value, eg four Jacks.
Straight flush: A ladder where all cards are the same colour.
Royal straight flush: The ultimate kick. A ladder from ace to ten in the same colour. What colour is not important.
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