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Hypermegachi's 6-Max Texas Hold'em Limit Guide - Post-Flop Play
You raise a lot preflop for one reason. You are telling everyone after you that you think your hand is worthy of having the button. You are telling them that if they think their hand is more worthy, then they must cold call or reraise you. This is all a set up for what makes you money....postflop play, so you want to go into the flop with the best position possible.
There are many decisions preflop that have little effect on your long term win rate. Bet, raise, fold, call, they all mean relatively little compared to what you do postflop will mean. Your decisions postflop are much more important because they can cost you the pot. Losing a big pot you should win is a disaster! You must prevent that from happening.
In general, you always want to be the one that's betting and raising. Calling is weak, and none of us want to be weak. The only time you should be calling is when you are on a draw, and getting the odds and/or implied odds to call.
The basic run down is this. On the flop you want to protect your hand by getting it heads up, or build the pot with a monster or drawing hand. On the turn is when you need to decide if your hand is good. Very few players are capable of raising you on the turn without the goods. Don't be the sheriff and call down to find out. Trust in your read. If you call down on the turn, you must call down on the river too. All those big bets will add up. Remember, limit is about all the little things adding up. It's just not "one more bet." It's one more bet over and over, causing you to lose money.
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