Re: Thoughts on check-raising/slowplaying Vs. rarely doing it?
Check-raising is a useful tool. Whether to use it depends on a lot of factors:
1. You want to limit the field. After you check, a bet has come from late or last position. You raise, forcing everyone in between to call 2 bets cold.
2. You want to build a pot, and the guy to your left was the pre-flop raiser. You check, he bets, you check-raise. Now everyone only has to call 1 more bet, so you are building a pot, giving *seemingly* correct odds for them to chase on 4th street.
Of course, you already know this if you've read TOP.
--Casey
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