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Raising only cost you one more small bet, but will:

1) make a bigger pot for when you hit and tie in the others.

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Aren't you the one who will be tied to the pot? If the flop comes 9 or 10 high and you get action, your likely beat, so your best flops will be ones that flop draws and you will be a dog to make you hand against top pair, etc.


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2) Possibly give you a free card.

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'Cept we prepaid for our flop free card, I'd hardly call that a bargain.


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3) sometimes get you 3-way where you might win with a top pair type hand.

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Yes, but our best flops are likely to be the ones where we flop draws and don't we want lots of opponents so more players will be around to pay us off on the river?

If we flop a flush or straight draw don't we want lots of opponents so when we ram 'n jam the flop we are getting value as dog on our raises?

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4) It will give you a more dangerous image (metagame).

All in all raising gives you more options

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I prefer more money to more options. Give me lots of opponents and I can't be losing too much equity in this hand by calling. Give me few opponents and one with an overpair and I can be taking much the worst of it.

Holdem Hi: 1370754 enumerated boards
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Qs Qh 711384 51.90 656462 47.89 2908 0.21 0.520
Kd Jd 389764 28.43 978082 71.35 2908 0.21 0.285
Tc 9c 266698 19.46 1101148 80.33 2908 0.21 0.195