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RaisingAs per the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, you profit when your rival play a hand differently from the way they would if they knew what you had. Any time you raise for whatever particular reason, you are doing so to prevent making a mistake yourself, according to the Fundamental Theorem, and force your rival to make mistakes. There are various reasons for raising. Many have been explained in several contexts in earlier chapters. In this chapter, we will summarize all these reasons and discuss most of them in more detail. We will also discuss how raising is an extension of the Fundamental Theorem of Poker. We decrease the main reasons for raising to seven: • Get more money in the pot when you have the best hand. • Drive out rival when you have the best hand. • To bluff or semi-bluff. • To get a free card • To gain information. • Drive out worse hands when your own hand may be second best. • Drive out better hands when a come hand bets. Now, let's look at each of these reasons individually. Raising to Get More Money in the Pot To get more money in the pot is the poker basics reason to raise when you have the best hand. Precisely, you would raise a single rival on the end of what you think is the best hand, but on former rounds you must think whether its worth giving your hand away to get another bet or two in the pot. (Look Chapter Eight, "The Value of Deception", and Chapter Fifteen, "Slowplaying".) Significantly, the decision to raise on an early round rely upon the size of the pot and how big a favorite you think your hand is. Paradoxically, the better your hand, the more reason you can have for not raising on an early round. If you think your rival will call another player's bet but fold if you raise, and if at the same time you figure they are not getting enough pot odds to call a bet if they knew what you had, then you should not raise. Just give them the chance to make a mistake of calling. on the other hand, if they get correct pot odds to call a single bet, which is frequent in many case, you should raise even if they are getting enough pot odds to call the bet and the raise. In this case, you are forcing them to fold but when they do call, you are getting more money in a pot you desire to win all the time. Again, in all ways raise if you expect a rival should not call a single bet to call a raise. You might get much money from worse chaser as possibly as you can. Like-wise, when you get heads-up with one rival in a limit game, it is usually correct to raise if you have the best hand to make your rival fold hands with which he may outdraw you. Since, the pot grows bigger and bigger, it becomes less important to conceal your big hands and more important to get even more money in the pot. Frequently, with a large pot, you are forcing for rival to fold when you raise, for they are getting enough pot odds to call. However, whether you hope they fold or hope they call, the size of the pot seems to keep around seeing another card. Thus, it is normally correct to raise with what you think is the best hand and get more money into a large pot even if it tends to give your hand away. Getting More Money In the Pot Without Raising At times - even with no more cards to come - you may get more money or at least much money into multi-way pot by calling rather than raising and simultaneously prevent the risk of a re-raise from the original bettor. You go for the overcall. That means you call rather than raising in order to obtain money from one or more of the players in the pot behind you. For instance, after all the cards are out, the bettor to your right seems to have a hand you can beat. If you raise, that player will possibly call but if he re-raises, you would be in danger. Subsequently, there are two players to your left, which you know you have beat. You know if you call they will also call but if you raise they will fold. In such cases, it becomes completely incorrect to raise. You should only call. By calling, you win two extra bets from the players behind you, but by raising you win only one extra bet when the original bettor calls your raise, which he may not do. Your raise can cost you two bets if the original bettor re-raises and you fold, or three bets if he raises and you call with the second best hand. It can also cost you two bets if the original bettor calls your raise and turns out to have the best hand.  The case at the end is not so extreme as the one just mentioned to make a call correct. Take a look at the following hands: Seven-Card Stud   
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