gus201
Rock Star
Silver Level
You never know until you try.
I think that most players don't check raise enough, or they do it with the wrong hands.
Think about these boards and what a good check raising range might look like:
button raises 2 big blinds, only the big blind calls.
flop1: 27K
flop2: 9TJ
flop3: 65K
flop4: Q88
Once you establish a read that the opponent likes to cbet a lot, then I like check raising ranges like this:
flop1: 77, 22, K7s, 98s(backdoor flush draw), T8s(bdfd).
flop2: 99, 87s, JT, J9s, AQ.
flop3: 66, 55, K6s, K5s, 87s.
flop4: 88, Q8s, A8, K8s, J8s, T8s, 98s, 87s, JT, J9s, T9s.
Btw, How does board texture effect your decision to check raise?
For me it's not just board dependent, but effective stack size dependent. If I only have ~pot sized bet left, then I'd rather just bet with my strong hands. If I can check and shove ~pot sized raise over my opponent's cbet, then I'd rather do that.
Sometimes with a read I'll go out on more limbs with flop and turn check raises, but it takes a good read to bluff with a low equity hand. Usually, because of my bad playing opponents, I'll remove the weaker bluffs from my check raising range.
While I agree that if you want to Check raise with low equity hands you need a good read and feel for your opponents that doesn't really answer the question. Would you check shove a pot size raise with say 77 on a 479-monotone board? What read would you need to process into making a check raise a good play there over an opponents cbet.
+1 we don't want folds so there is no reason to.