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The Check Raise

 

The "check raise" is one of the strongest and arguably the most effective moves in Texas Hold'em poker. Regarded by some as a dishonest move and even banned in certain card rooms, there is no doubt that the check-raise is an important weapon in any winning player's arsenal.

A check-raise is made when you check when the action gets to you, with the intention of raising if your opponent bets, hence the name 'check-raise'.

As you can imagine it is an interesting move because at first you show weakness to your opponent by checking, and then coming over the top of them to show a great amount of strength. This is why it can be regarded as dishonest as it is such a deceptive play, 'trapping' your opponent's bet into the pot.

So why should you use the check raise?

The check raise is useful in both bluffing your opponents out of pots and getting more money into the pot when you have a good hand. The check-raise also brings a dynamic element to your game by making you become more unpredictable to your opponents.

It is rare to find an amateur player using this move in a poker game, so if your opponents see you using this move they can be fairly sure you know how to play good poker, and may think twice about bluffing you out of future pots. Below are the two areas that describe how the check-raise can be used for bluffing, and getting more money into the pot with a strong hand.

Check raise example.

Check-raising as a bluff and semi-bluff.

The check raise is arguably the strongest move in poker, and so for this reason it is exceptionally useful when trying to pull off a bluff. This move is most effective against one opponent and becomes less successful as you increase the number of opponents, which could really be said for any type of bluff. 3 criteria should be met in order to make a good check raise:

To pull off a check-raise you have to be in first position for the obvious reason that you have to be checking into your opponent to make them bet. If your opponent does indeed bet, then if you raise your opponent you are showing such a high amount of strength that your opponent will fold any marginal hands.

A check raise will only work when you are first to act, otherwise you will simply be raising (if you are last to act).

There are certain criteria you should follow in order for this to be successful.

• You should be confident that you opponent holds a marginal hand.
• You should re-raise at least twice the amount of your opponent's bet.
• The pot should be relatively small.
• It is advisable to have some sort of drawing hand or marginal hand.

Be confident that your opponent has a hand they can fold.

Firstly, if you believe that your opponent holds a monster, there is little to no chance that a check-raise will get them off the hand. If you know that your opponent regularly bets after a person checks to him with no hand or with small to middle pairs, there is a far greater chance that a check-raise in this situation will work.

Make a strong raise.

Secondly, the re-raise made by you should be at least twice your opponent's bet. For example if your opponent bets $5 into a $10 pot, you should bet $15, re-raising another $10. This is because a minimum re-raise is likely to have little effect on your opponent, because they will only have to call a small amount relative to the size of the pot in order to see the next card. However, if you are re-raising them at least twice the amount they bet, it will make them think a little bit harder about whether they want to pay as much to see the next card.

Aim to make re raises at least twice the size of your opponent's bet. You do not want to give them good odds to call by minimum raising.

Check raises tend to be more effective in small pots.

Thirdly, you are more likely to pull off a bluff when the pot is small. This will be because the amount your opponent must call to see the next card will be larger relative to the size of the pot, giving them the wrong pot odds or to call to make a second pair or to make their draw. Therefore a check-raise will be more effective on the first actual round of betting, such as on the flop in Hold'em. If there is no betting on the flop then a check-raise will still be as effective on the turn because the pot has remained the same size, because there will have been no betting since the pre-flop betting round.

Finally, you will save yourself more money in the long run if you hold a drawing hand, due to the fact that your opponent will occasionally call your re-raise. If you have no hand, you will have to check and give up your hand to any bets on future rounds, losing the full amount of money you used in the actual raise.

However, if you have a good draw when your opponent calls, you stand a chance of taking the whole pot when you make your draw. In addition to this, you are likely to get a free card after after-check raising on the flop, because your opponent will be afraid to bet into you on future rounds. Giving you extra opportunities to make your draw.

Check raising for extra money.

If you hit a monster hand in poker, your main objective is to get as much money from your opponents as possible, and this is where a check-raise comes in handy. Unlike in the situation mentioned above, you want to use the check raise a little more passively to avoid scaring your opponents out of the hand. As with using this move to bluff opponents, there is another set of criteria that will make this play successful when followed correctly.

• The check-raise for extra money is more effective against multiple opponents.
• Be sure to be in first or early position.
• Do not check-raise too much.

It is advisable to check raise for extra money when there is more than one opponent in the pot, otherwise the move will do what is mentioned in the first part of the article, showing too much strength and making your opponent fold his marginal hand.

In the majority of situations, you are better off betting straight out as opposed to going for the check raise. However, it is a handy play to have in your arsenal in the right spots.

It is better to attempt a check raise when you are in one of the earliest positions in the hand, because if you are one of the last few to act, then you cannot be sure that any of the players behind you will bet to give you the opportunity to raise.

Although you want to extract as much money form your opponents as possible, a large re-raise may scare them all out of the hand. By minimum raising you are giving you opponents a greater incentive to put more money into the pot, because it is not costing them as much to see the next card.

Be sure when you do check-raise to extract extra money from your opponents, that your hand is virtually unbeatable. You do not want to be making minimum re-raise if the board is coordinated enough that your opponents hold hands that could possibly out-draw you.

Check raise evaluation.

When used correctly, the check-raise can be used to your advantage when you do not hold a strong hand, and when you hold a very strong hand. It is well worth your time and effort learning the principles put forward in this article, as it will prove to be of a tremendous value to your poker game.

This article covers the basics that you should know to help you understand how to effectively use this move. Be careful not to over-use this move, as it will lose its credibility the more you use it against the same opponent. The check-raise also requires a certain amount of knowledge about your opponent, which cannot be thoroughly taught through articles. So get out there and practice!

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The Semi Bluff

The Semi Bluff > Semi Bluffing EV Examples

Semi-bluffing made simple at Deuces Cracked covers everything you need to know about semi bluffing, and then some more. That video is the perfect compliment to this semi bluffing strategy article.

Watching your bluff get called hurts; it really does hurt a lot. Not only that, but repeated poorly executed bluffs eat away at your bankroll causing you to lose more and more money from one session to the next.

Imagine if there was a way to take the sting out of getting called when you bluff. Better yet, what if you could take all your bluffs and almost instantly make them profitable?

Allow me to introduce... the semi bluff.

*waits for a roar of applause and tears of gratitude and relief*

What is a semi bluff?

A semi-bluff is when you bluff, but you still have a chance of improving to make the best hand on future cards.

For example, raising with A 4 on a flop of K Q 2 would be classed as a semi-bluff. It’s unlikely that you have the best hand right now (making it a bluff), but a diamond on the turn or the river would give you a flush and the best hand (making it a semi-bluff).

What’s the difference between a total bluff and a semi bluff?

• Total bluff = no (or very little) chance of winning the hand if called.
• Semi bluff = some chance of winning the hand if called.

A total bluff has absolutely no chance of winning the hand if called. Therefore, it has 0% equity in the pot.

Note: To be more precise, I’d go ahead and say that any hand with less than 10% equity can be classed a “total” bluff. Sometimes even the most clear-cut bluffs will have some equity for whatever reason.

Semi bluffs have a decent chance of winning the hand if called, so they have at least some equity in the pot. As you can imagine, different semi bluffs will have varying chances of winning the hand, which means that some will have more equity than others.

For example, semi bluffing with a flush and straight draw hand will have far more equity than semi bluffing with a gutshot straight draw. In general, more chance of improving = more equity.

Semi bluffs can also only be made when there are more cards to come (so on the flop or the turn), as those unknown cards are what’s giving you the opportunity to improve. So no, you can’t semi bluff on the river. On the river, you’re either making a pure bluff (0% equity) or you’re betting for value and want your opponent to call.

Semi bluffing diagram (range of semi bluffs).

A diagram to highlight the types of bet based on your equity in the hand.

• A few important notes about this diagram.
• The less equity you have in the hand the riskier your bluff becomes.
• If you have little or no equity in the hand, your bet is virtually a total bluff.
• If you have more than 50% equity you should be betting for value and hoping to see your opponent to call instead of fold.

If your bluff gets called, you’d much rather have a 35% chance of making the best hand than a 12% chance. It makes mathematical sense for a semi bluffs with higher equity to be more profitable than semi bluffs with lower equity, because you end up winning more often with a higher equity percentage.

How important is semi bluffing?

If you’re making a bluff, it’s far more profitable to make semi bluffs than pure bluffs.

Try not to think of “total bluffs” as one thing and “semi bluffs” as another. They are both bluffs at the end of the day. Instead, think of semi-bluffs as the better version of "pure bluffs" or "total bluffs" - the good looking and wealthier older brother if you will.

The advantages of semi bluffing.

When you semi bluff, you still have the opportunity to win the hand. As a result, semi bluffs are inherently better than total bluffs.

The fact that you have more equity in the hand with semi bluffs means you’re saving much more money over the long run. With total bluffs, you don’t have that equity cushion to help you when your bluff gets called.

For example, on a board of QT3 it’s far more +EV to bluff with AK than it is to bluff with 72o.

• With AK your bet has fold equity + actual equity (overcards + gutshot).
• With 72o your bet has fold equity only.

The more equity you have when you’re putting money in to the pot the better. In fact, in the example above betting with AK is almost certainly +EV, whereas betting with 72o is likely to be -EV.

This is a prime example of how semi bluffs are better than total bluffs during play.

Additional advantages of semi bluffing.

It gives you the initiative in the hand. If you bet out instead of checking, you gain the initiative. This means that it’s more likely that your opponent will check to you on future streets, making your decisions a lot easier.

It can disguise your hand. Some players will expect you to check and call with drawing hands, not bet and/or raise. Therefore, you may well win more when you hit your draw because your opponent is less likely to give you credit for having it.

Good hands to semi bluff.

• Big flush draws.
• Open-ended straight draws.
• Flush draws + open-ended straight draws.

All of these hands have good amounts of equity against made hands like pairs, which is the exact reason why they are great hands for semi-bluffing.

Bad hands to semi bluff.

• Gutshot straight draws.
• Weak flush draws.

Care to take a wild guess as to why these aren’t great hands for semi bluffing? Yep, that’s right… they don’t have a lot of equity.

Gutshot straight draws have poor odds of hitting, which means less equity. Weak flushes have a problems with reverse implied odds (even if you hit, you could still lose money to a stronger flush), which means poor equity again.

Still, these hands are better to bluff with than a hand with 0% equity (or close to it). It’s just that they’re not as good as the ones above.

Check out the percentage odds chart or the ratio odds chart to compare the odds of completing different types of drawing hands in Texas Hold'em.

Semi bluffing examples.

Read the full article on semi bluffing examples.

This article is already long enough as it is. The examples in the article linked to above also cover the EV of bluffing with different types of hands with varying equity. Thrilling stuff.

When not to semi bluff.

Don’t semi bluff if you know your opponent is going to call.

If you know that it’s very likely that your opponent will call your bet, it defeats the object of bluffing.

If your opponent isn’t going to fold your semi bluff loses its fold equity, so all you are left with is your actual equity in the pot. Now, seeing as your actual equity isn’t that great because you have a drawing hand, it doesn’t make sense to put more money in to the pot unnecessarily.

Evaluation of semi bluffing in poker.

The best types of bluffs are with hands that have a fair chance of winning if called. Or to put it another way, they have a decent amount of equity in the pot although not being the best hand at the time.

The more equity your hand has when running a semi bluff the better. Think of the equity behind you as a safety net. The more equity you have the bigger the net is, and the more money you will save when you fall (i.e. your bluff gets called).

This is not to say that pure bluffs don’t have their place in poker. If you never make pure bluffs it makes you easier to play against, but I’m not going to get in to that here. Check out balanced ranges for more on that.

But basically, if you’re not fluent in when and when not to bluff, you’re far better off making semi bluffs than pure bluffs. If you’re a beginner poker player, simply swapping pure bluffs for semi bluffs will increase your win rate (or lessen your loss-rate) significantly.

Go back to the awesome Texas Hold'em Strategy.

Poker Continuation Bet

Specific Plays In Texas Hold'em

By Greg Walker

The following guides provide information on how to successfully perform a variety of different "plays" at the Texas Hold'em tables.

Whilst a lot of these plays may look pretty clever, you have to remember that there is a time and a place for everything in Texas Hold'em. Making a squeeze play for the sake of trying to be tricky without any real reasoning is not going to be profitable I'm afraid.

Texas Hold'em plays articles.

The Continuation Bet	1	Plays	8/10
The Semi Bluff	1	Plays	8/10
The Free Card	1	Plays	7/10
The Check Raise	1	Plays	7/10
The Blocking Bet	1	Plays	5/10
The Stop and Go	1	Plays	5/10
The Float Play	3	Plays	6/10
The Double Barrel	3	Plays	6/10
The Squeeze	3	Plays	5/10
The 3Bet	4	Plays	7/10

(Click table headings to sort)

Specific plays section highlights.

Important plays to learn for Texas Hold'em.

Two of the most important plays that you should familiarise yourself with are:

• The continuation bet
• The check raise

The continuation bet is one of those things that takes a minute to learn, but a lifetime to master. Continuation betting is one of the easiest ways to add that little extra to your win rate as a beginner player if you can use it correctly. The sooner you learn how to continuation bet the better.

The check raise is so powerful and deceptive that it actually gets banned in a few card rooms (I bet you're really interested in it now), even though it is a perfectly legitimate play. If you are yet to discover this play you will open up a whole new dynamic to your game after you learn how to use the check raise effectively.

Other interesting specific plays.

Pulling off a successful float play is one of the most satisfying feelings in Texas Hold'em. When everything falls in to place and you take down a pot with a float play you feel like the God of poker. But as with any other play, don't forget that there is a time and a place for a float, otherwise you will be leaking chips like a fiend as you chase after that one moment of greatness.

Just remember that even though these plays will open up and expand your Texas Hold'em skills repertoire, always remember to use common sense before attempting any "fancy plays" at the table.

Common sense trumps extravagance every time in Hold'em (and every other game of poker for that matter). Don't forget that.

Specific Plays In Texas Hold'em

The following guides provide information on how to successfully perform a variety of different "plays" at the Texas Hold'em tables.

Whilst a lot of these plays may look pretty clever, you have to remember that there is a time and a place for everything in Texas Hold'em. Making a squeeze play for the sake of trying to be tricky without any real reasoning is not going to be profitable I'm afraid.

Texas Hold'em plays articles.

The Continuation Bet	1	Plays	8/10
The Semi Bluff	1	Plays	8/10
The Free Card	1	Plays	7/10
The Check Raise	1	Plays	7/10
The Blocking Bet	1	Plays	5/10
The Stop and Go	1	Plays	5/10
The Float Play	3	Plays	6/10
The Double Barrel	3	Plays	6/10
The Squeeze	3	Plays	5/10
The 3Bet	4	Plays	7/10

(Click table headings to sort)

Specific plays section highlights.

Important plays to learn for Texas Hold'em.

Two of the most important plays that you should familiarise yourself with are:

• The continuation bet
• The check raise

The continuation bet is one of those things that takes a minute to learn, but a lifetime to master. Continuation betting is one of the easiest ways to add that little extra to your win rate as a beginner player if you can use it correctly. The sooner you learn how to continuation bet the better.

The check raise is so powerful and deceptive that it actually gets banned in a few card rooms (I bet you're really interested in it now), even though it is a perfectly legitimate play. If you are yet to discover this play you will open up a whole new dynamic to your game after you learn how to use the check raise effectively.

Other interesting specific plays.

Pulling off a successful float play is one of the most satisfying feelings in Texas Hold'em. When everything falls in to place and you take down a pot with a float play you feel like the God of poker. But as with any other play, don't forget that there is a time and a place for a float, otherwise you will be leaking chips like a fiend as you chase after that one moment of greatness.

Just remember that even though these plays will open up and expand your Texas Hold'em skills repertoire, always remember to use common sense before attempting any "fancy plays" at the table.

Common sense trumps extravagance every time in Hold'em (and every other game of poker for that matter). Don't forget that.

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