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When you’ve been raised on the turn

In a fixed-limit game, most players with very strong hands will wait until the betting doubles on the turn before raising their opponents. They are trying to exploit them by extracting the most money they can.

If you are betting the turn because you believe your opponent is weak and will fold to your bet, you don’t have much of a decision at all. The best course of action is to realize you’ve misread your opponent. Just fold your hand and wait for a better opportunity. Calling won’t help if he’s got a decent hand and you have nothing at all. You could reraise him, but the vast majority of players in a fixed-limit game are not going to raise and then fold to a reraise.

But so much of hold’em is often a contest between top pair with a good kicker and other hands. Top pair often wins when those other hands are top pair with a weaker kicker, a lesser pair, or a drawing hand that fails to connect. But top pair usually loses to two pair or better.

If you examined the play of all the hold’em players in all the games in all the world, most of them will raise with two pair or better and they usually have the best hand when doing so.

If you know absolutely nothing about your opponent and you’ve been raised on the turn, or checkraised, and you have to guess about what he has, you can usually figure him for two pair or better and you can use that as a decision point.

If you have a draw to a straight or a flush and the size of the pot offsets the odds against completing your hand, you should call and see the river. If you have one pair and you figure him for two pair or better, you are usually drawing to catch one of five cards that will allow you to make three of a kind of pair your kicker. The size of the pot doesn’t usually support this kind of draw and in these kinds of situations you’re better off releasing your hand, even if it is top pair with a good kicker.

Summarising Turn Play

Raise when you’ve got the top two pair on the turn and an opponent bets.

If you’ve got an open ended straight draw or flush draw, and you’re up against two or more opponents, call any bet on the turn. However, if the board is paired, and there’s a bet and raise in front of you, be wary. You could be up against a full house.

Bet, or check (planning to raise), when you’re sure you have the best hand. Make it expensive for opponents to draw out on you.

If you hold a drawing hand, usually try to make your hand as cheaply as possible.

If you have a hand you would call with, betting — rather than calling — is a superior strategy if you think there’s any chance your bet will cause your opponent to fold.

Be alert to picking up a draw on the turn.

“Should I checkraise or should I bet?” comes up frequently. Unless you think your opponent will bet and call your raise, you should come out betting.

Don’t bluff bad players.

If you’re raised on the turn consider folding if all you have is one pair.

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