Suppose your hand is (9434949 and the floP is L949" [9- In this case you have flopped the best low draw (A-2) and the best high draw (an ace-high-flush draw), and a three makes you a straight. If you have this hand, you're thinking, "Another great flop for me.
I want to keep the other hands in, but I also want to build a big pot." Therefore, you'll probably bet if you're the first to act, and then just call if someone raises you, as opposed to check-raising and thus making it two bets for your opponents to call. Although it's true that you would like to get rid of any A-3 hand in case a deuce falls on one of the next two cards (where an A-3 would beat your second-best A-5), it's also true that you don't have a high hand right now, just a high draw. Therefore, you want to keep the players in the pot by betting into them but trying to make sure that it's always just one bet to them.
When you have a marginal flop, you usually either pump it or dump it, depending on whether or not you think you have a chance to win both the high and the low.
Pump it or dump it simply means that you will raise or fold on the flop. If you think that your marginal hand is the best hand, then you should pump it. If you think it's the second-best hand, dump it.
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When you have a good flop rather than one of the monster flops we've just discussed, you will most often want to ram and jam your hand on the flop, in order to build the pot—both in case you win both ways and also to drive out some opponents who might otherwise draw to a better hand. When you drive out hands that might otherwise draw to a better high or low than you, that's called protecting your hand.
Suppose you have a hand of [V]-H"[3"1S and the floP is (94949- In tms case y°u have noPPed tne best possible low hand (A-2), a straight draw, and a pair of sixes. This is a very good flop for you. With this flop you should be thinking, "OK, nice flop. I need to ram and jam it and try to drive out any A-3 in case a two comes off and the A-3 beats my low hand. I also need to ram and jam it in case someone else has A-2 and my pair of sixes is better than his high hand" (in which case you would win the high side with your pair of sixes and one-half of the low side with your A-2, which would yield you "three quarters").
By ramming and jamming you might make a higher pair fold, thus making sure you get three quarters against another A-2. You also want to ram and jam it in case an eight comes off the deck later (which would give you an eight-high straight), to protect your straight draw, your raise having driven out higher straight draws like the 9-10 or 9-6. Of course, you would love to see a three come off the deck and make you a straight, or a six to make you three sixes.
The verdict here, then, is that you ram and jam, for a lot of different reasons, including the possibility of making your pair of sixes good (if you can raise everyone else out and the other A-2 can't beat your sixes); clearing out a higher straight draw in case an eight comes; clearing out an A-3, which could beat you if a deuce came off; and just building a big pot in case you win half or all of it.
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