Disguising Your Hand
1) What happens if you play against players who obviously have hands roughly equal to yours and you seldom raise ?
Ans : You give away too much information.
2) What happens when you do raise ?
Ans : Your opponents will be able to put you on a good low hand or a high hand.
3) Since a lot of bets are automatic according to how the cards fall, what will disguising your hand do for you ?
Ans : It will cause your opponents to make automatic bets that are incorrect.
4) Does disguising your hand always mean that you are going in the opposite direction than it appears ?
Ans : Not necessarily.
5) What else could it be ?
Ans : By disguising your hand, you might make your opponents think you have made a low hand when you actually have only four low cards and a pair.
6) What might a play like this do for you ?
Ans : It could make another low draw or a made weak low fold. In addition, it might allow you do value bet two pair on the end into a high hands.
Introduction / Starting hands / Three of a Kind Wired / Disguising Your Hand / Ante Stealing / Getting Reraised on a Semi-Steal / When an Ace Raises / When the Bring-In Raises / General Strategy / How Far Do You Go? / Fourth Street / Check-Raising on Fourth and Fifth Streets / Fifth Street / Sixth Street / Seventh Street / Position / Playing the High Hands / Bluffing / Slow-Playing / Knowing Your Opponents / Raising Aggressively / The Toughest Decision of All / Staying to the End / Pairing the Door Card / Keeping Track of the Cards / Scare Cards / An Expert Play / Another Good Play / Reading Hands / Psychology / Afterthought
