Of the five reasons to raise, this one is the easiest to understand. Whenever you have the best hand and you want to make the other players pay the price for having second-best hands, all you have to do is raise. Let's look at an example:
You have A*94 and the board is K*9V5*l04 with the river card to come.
If there's a bet, you should raise. Why? Well, let's see:
You: re not trying to eliminate any players. In fact, you want everyone to call this bet and raise.
You're not trying to get a free card on the river. In fact, it costs just as much to raise on the turn as it does to bet on the river.
You're not trying to gain information. You don't really are what anyone else has; you're a big favorite over whatever it is. Anyone with a set needs the board to pair, and they have only ten outs. Anyone holding J*Q* needs the A4 or the 94 to make a straight flush, and you're the only one who knows those cards aren't in the deck because they're in your hand. Anyone holding two pair has only eight outs to make a full house.
You're certainly not bluffing. Bluffing would be betting without so much as a pair. You've got the nut flush at this point.
So why are you raising? You are raising to get other players to put more money into a pot you expect to win. That's betting for value.
You don't always have to have the nuts to be able to bet for value. If you think you have the best hand at the table, you can also raise for value, even if your hand isn't the best hand possible. The key is knowing when your hand is probably the best, even if it's not the best possible hand. Let's look at another example:
You're in the big blind with 6*5*. The player on your left raises, making it two bets to go. Two other players call. With 7 to 1 odds, you call too. The flop is 8*5*2*. You check, the preflop raiser bets, and the other two players fold. You call because you can beat A*K>, you're getting 9 to 1 pot odds, and you're against only one other player, who might check when the turn card comes. The turn card is the 6*.
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I'm going to fold, but there's one more mental exercise I'm going to perform before I throw the hand away. I ask myself the Big Picture Question: "Is there any way he could have played his hand this way with a hand worse than mine?" Maybe my answer is "No." In that case, I'm certainly right to fold now.
Using one type of reasoning, I've determined that his hand is much better than mine. Using another type of reasoning, I've also determined that his hand can't possibly be worse than mine. Putting the two together, it's a cinch I'm beat.
I want you to go back and look at what could be called the tempo, or cadence, of the hand you just analyzed. Before the flop it was bet-raise-call. After the flop is was bet-raise-reraise and then (after analyzing the hand) fold. I want you to know that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the after-the-flop action would have been bet-raise-reraise-call. Instead it was bet-raise-reraise-fold
Have you ever seen anyone raise and then fold when it was reraised, when he had to call only one more small bet to see the next card? Who folds after he has raised and has to call only one bet to see the next card? You do, that's who! If you're beat, and you know it, then there's absolutely no reason you should call another bet this hand. Too many players will call that last reraise because it happens so quickly and they don't give it too much thought.
Don't fall into the trap of making automatic plays just because you're in the middle of a heated contest. Your raise served its purpose-you found out what you wanted to know about your opponent's hand. It's only one hand, so let it go. Take comfort in the fact that you're saving a bet where you know other players would be losing that bet and subsequent ones.
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