In Online Poker, you have the option of using the "in turn" buttons to select your move even before your opponents have acted. I do not recommend the use of these "in turn" buttons unless you are going to fold.

However, some of your opponents will use them, so it is important to recognize when they have used them and what it might possibly indicate about the strength of their hand.

It is easy to recognize when someone has selected one of these buttons since their move will occur almost instantaneously after the player before them. The chips enter the pot at practically the same time.

This is very different than someone just acting quickly, since in this case they are selecting move after their opponent has acted. Let's discuss some of the reasons why a player might raise instantaneously.

The first reason someone might raise instantaneously is the obvious one. They have a strong hand and decide to raise no matter what happens before them.

For example, if a middle player limps in preflop, the next player quickly raises, and the cutoff reraise instantaneously, the cutoff probably has a super premium hand since he was going to raise or reraise no matter what happened before him.

Sometimes players use reverse psychology to bully you into calling their strong hands. They want you to think, "He would never raise so fast with a good hand, so he might be bluffing".

Opponents generally have a strong hand whenever they raise instantaneously on the turn or river and to some extent preflop. This is an online tell common with many opponents.

These tell is even stronger on the river, where I find an instantaneous raise almost always means the nuts or close to it. However, this tell is not nearly as useful on the flop.

Many opponents will raise instantaneously on the flop as a semi-bluff with two overcards or some other type of draw; therefore, they could have a strong hand or are just trying for a free card.

In these cases on the flop, it is important to observe your opponent's individual tendencies. One last comment about raising on the Internet. As we discussed before, players tend to play more deceptively online than they do in a live game.

Many players believe check-raising is impolite in a home game, whereas players on the Internet check-raise all of the time. Maybe they check-raise more since they don't have to face their opponent.

This causes a small adjustment in your strategy when compared to live play. On the Internet, you should be more careful betting in late position with weak hands than you would in a live game since there is a better chance one of your opponents might check-raise.

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