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Disguising Your Hand

When you play poker against players who obviously have hands roughly equal to yours and you seldom raise, you will be giving away too much information.

Notice that you divulge something about your play by inaction as well as by action.

When you do raise, your opponents will be able to put you on a big low hand or a high hand.

So you have to do some raising or reraising when the hands appear roughly equal; otherwise you will be giving up too much of your deception.

When your opponents have some doubt as to exactly what you hold, they may play improperly against you.

A lot of bets are almost automatic according to how the cards fall.

By Disguising Your Hand and thus encouraging some of your opponents to play badly, you will have them making automatic bets that are incorrect.

So as you can see, it’s to your advantage for someone to think you have something other than what you really have.

Disguising Your Hand doesn’t always mean that you make your opponents think you are going high when you are going low, or vice versa.

Black Jack Poker

A lot of times you might make them think you have a pair. (More specific ideas. )

This type of play may encourage another low draw or a made low ( but one that is not very good ) to fold.

In addition, it might allow you to value bet two pair on the end into a hand that looks like only a high pair.

By Disguising Your Hand, you will make it difficult - if not impossible – for your opponents to correctly ascertain the exact strength of your holding.

If you are successful in doing this, you will get them to make some major errors against you.