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
If there were say 17 BBs
If there were say 17 BBs in the pot after you called the flop, and your opponent bet 12 BBs into you on the turn, and you raised to 29 BBs, you'll risk 29 BBs to win 29 BBs. Your opponent will only need to fold half the time, and you do have a miracle card you will hit 5% of the time that won't improve your opponent’s calling range. If your opponent folds half the time it's a narrowly profitable play, but if they fold more than half the time, which is entirely possible against some SVB opponents, then it's a solid +EV play. In this situation they should only roughly continue with 45% of their range or less on the turn.
Another fairly common example on the
Another fairly common example on the river is when you call the flop with a draw, turn a pair, and are now facing a bet on the river in a spot that against some opponents might be good to bluff catch. Against SVBs though you should consider raising in a lot more of these situations instead of calling.