Check-raising keeps pesky foes on their toes
Whether you’re playing Limit Hold ‘em, Seven-Card Stud, Omaha or even No Limit Hold ‘em, the check-raise can be a deadly weapon when used properly. Check-raising is a play in which you pass your turn by not betting. That’s the check. And it should suggest, because you didn’t bet, that you don’t have a strong hand.
Once you check, and another player bets, you pounce out of the high grass with the raise.It’s a powerful but at times controversial tool.In some home games, the check-raise is outlawed…
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Poker jargon:
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- DEALER'S CHOICE - In home games, a rule that permits the dealer to name which poker game to be played that hand. Often limited to selecting from a list provided.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- RAIL - A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- STAKE - The amount of a player's BUY-IN, or the amount of money they are willing to play with in a given session. Compare: BANKROLL.
- TURN - The fourth community card in Hold'em.
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