A common parlance in poker method is the idea of “folding to the raiser.” The ideology behind this statement is that when a player represents a hand before the flop in position at the casino, the players who are meant to act before him after the flop should then “check to the raiser,” in the idea of respecting his previous bet and seeing if he will continue on the aggression. Players, then, can either fold to the image that the raiser actually has a big hand, or they can reraise with the image that they have caught more of the flop than he has. This idea, though, seems to take away from the power of the bet, and gives too much power to the raising online poker player. Automatically checking to someone who has raised is pretty much asking him to take pots away, unless one is purely setting up to check raise every time, which can be a dangerous proposition. Sometimes defensive bets from out of position, designed to either stop the raiser from betting, or to give them the chance to reraise and have a bigger pot than would have been, can be more effective than simply following the ‘check to the raiser’ pattern.