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Way #1
Use the check-raise tactic when you have an absolute monster hand. In Texas Hold ‘Em, this would be something like trips with no draws on the board at the flop or a made hand like a flopped straight with no flush draw or a flopped flush with no pair on the board. These types of hands are strong and if you sense that your opponent also has a strong hand (or a betting reflex), it is a good idea to try and see if you can get them to string up the rope for their own hanging. This is especially true of monster hands made on the flop like trips, since if your opponent does not bite then you can always go ahead and bet again on the turn or the river anyway. Such a move has the advantage of looking like an attempt to buy the pot and if your opponent sees it as such, you can still get a call and make some good money on the hand.
Way #2
A second way that you can use the check-raise tactic is through a bluff. This requires that you are playing against an opponent that is aggressive, but advanced enough to understand how the mechanics of the game work. If they are betting at a lot of pots, you can be reasonably sure that most of the time they do not have a hand strong enough that they would be willing to push it all the way. You can even let yourself get pushed around a few hands in order to establish a conservative image that can help you with the use of the check-raise bluff. When a player bets on the flop, you can reluctantly call and then do a premeditated check-raise on the next card. This means that you will have done a check-call on the flop and a check-call on the turn. Any advanced player will stop immediately and start thinking about your hand. If your table image is tight enough, you should be able to get away with that bluff against a decent poker opponent. Don’t overuse it however, as too many check-raise bluffs can come back to haunt you sooner rather than later.
Way #3
A check-raise is sometimes also a good way to see where you are in a given hand. Most of the time people advise you to put feeler bets out on the flop or the turn as a way of seeing where you are in the hand, but in online poker there are many people that will call too often yet are not conventional fish in the sense of a calling station at an offline casino. With these players, the way to really slow them down is through a check-raise since the check-raise is often a sign of a really strong hand. Therefore, if you have an opponent that you are not really sure of, using the check-raise as a feeler in a few situations to get a sense of their betting strategy and patterns can be a useful thing to do.
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