Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
On a single broadway dry board your equity is going to drop a bit with your air
On a single broadway dry board your equity is going to drop a bit with your air range, small pairs, and combined made hands. It's not significant, but it's a drop, so when you're playing these boards check/calling with gutshots and air isn't going to be as profitable as it will be on lower dry boards. You're going to have to turn those hands into bluffs a higher percentage of the time to make them profitable.
Check-raising
Check-raising on these kinds of board textures with your air, gutshots, strong top pair, and sets can be a profitable line since most of the time you're going to have air or top pair. Check-raising on a dry board like this is going to look suspect for a lot of decent opponents, but it's still going to put them in a tough spot on later streets with a lot of their hands. Typically against regulars you can try making this play with your gutshots and air and see how they react. If they are calling you down or re-floating you, then it's not going to be a good strategy out of position. A lot of mediocre regulars will just fold if they don't have a strong hand here, and against those opponents it's a highly profitable play. When you can get your opponent to fold some better hands and when they have the better equity, it's a very big +EV play for you.