99 on very drawy board

[Blzdwrath]

I noticed a lot of suggestions for a c/r on the flop. When are c/rs profitable, what conditions do you use them and what is the desired effect? A free card?

[knockonwood]

Your questions here are pretty broad as the conditions change for every different hand. In a nutshell though, flop check raises can profitable for a couple of reasons. You get more money in when you are ahead, it protects your hand. Check raising to protect your hand works better when you have a good, but not great hand. (like 99 in the hand above but on a 10,2,Q rainbow flop. Not as drawy as the board in the discussed hand) eg, you check, the PFR bets out, you raise and you leave the remaining players calling two cold. The down side to check raising in a spot like the hand above is that it can bloat the pot and encourage draws to stay in that otherwise would have just been peeling lightly on the flop.

[Eeegah]

man i have been gone a while haven't i

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pfft ... what's up with all the "gots to raiz the nines preflops - yo"

preflop is totally 'whatever' ... not betting the flop is stupid though

[Xylocain]

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pfft ... what's up with all the "gots to raiz the nines preflops - yo"

preflop is totally 'whatever' ... not betting the flop is stupid though

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