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You usually fold in the following situations:

• When you have a weak hand;
• When a tight player has opened the game in early position, you fold even if you have a strong hand;
• When you believe that other players have stronger hands than yours;
• When there are too many players;
• When your hand is not strong enough, so you can’t call or check –raise;
• When the players are too many and you are in early position;
• When you do not intend to use bluffing strategy

You usually re -raise in the following situations:

• When you have calculated the odds (your odds) and compared to your opponents’ hands they are 2 to 1;
• When you want to convince your opponents that you are not very experienced, especially if you are actually an aggressive player;
• To make your opponent stop bluffing;
• When you have a strong hand and your opponent is an aggressive player who probably will re –raise;
• When you want to make experienced tight players to play passive with strong hands since that will decrease your loss.

You usually raise in the following situations:

• When you have a very strong combination and you want to increase the pot;
• When you want to make your opponent to check during the next betting i.e. to scare him;
• When you believe that in this way you will change the pot odds;
• When you have a strong hand and you are sure that other players won’t fold;
• When you are convinced your opponent is bluffing;
• When you decide to bluff with not that strong hand;
• When you intend to improve your hand during the next betting round and you want to make your opponents fold ( the players with higher combinations but not high enough to answer your raise) i.e. when you use semi-bluffing strategy;
• When you already managed to form a very strong hand such as straight, flush or full house;
• When you want to convince other players that you are a loose and aggressive player and you raise having not a very strong hand;
• When you need to understand what are the hands of your opponents i.e. to “read” their hands.

You usually call in the following situations:

• When you have calculated the pot odds and they are favorable for you;
• When you need other players to accept you as a loose player;
• When you have a strong hand but the game was opened by a tight player in early position;
• When you don’t want the player after you to re-raise;
• When you want to keep a player in the game who is bluffing and you want to keep it that way;
• When you have a chance to improve your combination later (with draw or free card /s);
• When there are only loose players at the table;
• When you think you have the same strong combination as your opponent, so the chances to win and to lose are equal;
• When you have a winning combination and you can raise but you want to keep the other players in the game since if you raise, they can fold;
• When you want to bluff later;
• When you figure that your opponent has a weak hand;
• When you need to convince your opponents that you call quite often, so you can make them stop bluffing