Btw this blog is mostly just going to be random poker related posts by me with no real logical sense or anything 
I am continuing with my learning of pre-flop play and set myself a little task by asking myself why we raise pre-flop and these were the answer I came up with....
- For value, as we want as much money in the pot as we can while we are ahead of our opponents range.
To disguise the strength of our hand, if we raise every hand we wish to continue with pre-flop then our range is a lot wider than if we only raise AA/KK/QQ/AKs
To steal the blinds, we are taking the blinds with marginal hands that we wouldn’t normally raise with if called we have position on the blinds.
For the lead in the hand, as the pre-flop raiser you have control over the hand as you have shown the most aggression, normally get checked to on the flop but not always.
To isolate weaker player(s), if you feel that you have an edge post-flop and wish to play a pot with them and wish to get others out of the pot or more money in pre-flop.
These are the only ones I can think of at the moment but I will add some more if I can think of some.
The reason behind doing this and things like these is because I want to learn the reasons behind why people do certain things like raise pre-flop, not just because everyone else does it. It might make me look stupid by writing it down seen as everyone else already knew as soon as they started playing but I am willingly to look stupid as long as I am going get better in the long run.