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You can rapidly make up for the blind's advantage by being especially attentive to how he plays from the flop on. You can use psychology and position to help read the blind's hand, but only after the flop.

If you're in a hand against several other players and one of them is the blind, you should be aware of the fact that all bets and raises are not created equal. A bet or a raise from the blind means something entirely different than it does when coming from one of the other players. A check-raise from the blind, especially on the flop, is an excellent clue about the strength of his hand.

A player in the blind who flops a strong hand will usually not be able just to bet, knock players out, and win the hand. Why? Well, the strength of his hand is situational and temporary. A blind who holds 8*3* when the flop is 8*5*34 will almost always have the best hand at that point. The problem for him is that there are more cards to come.

If this blind bets, he knows that the players who have overcards, a pair, a flush, or a straight draw will call, hoping to see one more card to make their hand. So he will check-raise on the flop in an attempt to knock these players out of the hand. It's a good move, and it often works. It also gives away his hand to the players astute enough to know that a check-raise from the blind usually means just what I've described.

Another reason that this blind cannot bet and win is that the draws will often have the right odds to call and possibly beat him. If he bets on the flop and gets called, it's now mathematically correct for his opponents to call again when he bets on the turn. Anyone with a draw will then have the right odds to see the final card and possibly make his hand. The check-raise is an effort to keep this very predictable scenario from happening. It's an attempt to drive players out of the hand by forcing them to call two bets cold.

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