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Raise - To increase the amount of the bet.
When a player matches the amount of a bet pending before him, and chooses to add more money to the pot to increase the
stakes for the remaining players by betting more, he is making a raise.
The type and structure of the game determine the increased wager. (i.e. – Limit,
Pot Limit,
No Limit, etc.) For example,
in a $3/$6 Limit Hold’em game, a player may only raise the size of the small bet ($3) before and on the flop, and may
only raise the size of the big bet ($6) on the turn and river. In No Limit, a typical preflop raise might be 3 times the
amount of the big blind, but can be any or all of a player’s chips.
Raising is arguably the most powerful action available to poker players. Player’s facing a raise must often decide if
they are facing a bluff or a very strong hand: Choosing correctly or incorrectly will bear the extra cost or reap the
extra rewards of the raise depending on whether they face the
nuts or pick off a
bluff respectively. Some players (i.e. –
maniacs) will raise often and with very
poor cards in the hope of getting action when they do make very strong hands. Consistent raising by a player makes it more
difficult to read them.
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