Aggressive play is often rewarded in poker, and this is especially true when you’re playing with non-premium hands like suited connectors. When you raise with your big draw, you have two ways to win the hand. Your opponent can fold, or you can hit your draw. If you call, there’s only one way to win: you have to make the best hand. This seems obvious, but this basic fact eludes many players. It’s where the mantra ‘raise or fold’ came from. But make sure you keep this one fact in mind – if there is no fold equity, that is, if there is no way your opponent is going to lay his hand down, there really is no point in semi-bluffing.