Raising Aggressively
1. Why do you occasionally raise ?
Ans : To set up a play, to disguising your hand, or to knock someone out.
2. Do you ever raise to get a free card ?
Ans : Only very rarely.
3. Why is this ?
Ans : Because many of your opponents will raise back, plus the free cards that you get won’t have the potential, as they do in many other games, to make a big disguised hand.
4. Does raising gain you valuable information ?
Ans : Not usually.
5. Why not ?
Ans : If an opponent has a playable hand, he generally will hang on, whether you raise or not.
6. What typically might happen if you raise ?
Ans : You might find yourself calling a reraise and thus being forced to play to the end.
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
