Unlike soccer, poker betting tactics are fairly straight forward.

With poker the rules are simple: You can either bet, check, fold, call or raise. But there are a few poker betting tactics that you may want to keep under your hat:

Re-raise: If someone else raises you but you’re confident that you’ve got a superior hand, you can re-raise your opponent to force him to place another bet.

Check-raise: Let’s say you have a great hand and you really want to clean up. That is to say, you want more than just one bet from your opponent. So you check, your opponent then bets, you then raise him. In this case he calls and if your hand is as good as you think it is, well it looks like you just pocketed two bets from one opponent. But if he checks or re-raises you because he think he has the better hand then it’s a different story.

Check-call: In this example let’s say you have a pretty good hand but your intuition tells you that he may have a better hand. In this case you can avoid raising and in instead check and call.

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