How to raise preflop?

Originally Posted by asianvato

I have heard it is not good to raise progressively based on the quality of your hand because it gives away the strength of your hand.

Thats a bad rule to follow. Raising and the amount to raise depends on alot of factors (e.g. opp, #opps in, cards, position, etc). Generally, you want to communicate the strength of you hand to your opp, it will encourage folding. Also (generally), you want to deceive the strength of you hand if its overly strong (trips, flush, etc) and that might be a time to not bet aggressive at the start. Most of the time I wouldnt try and deceive unless I had a semi-nut hand

Originally Posted by asianvato

So should you raise the same amount evertime, say $3 in a $25 NL game at party poker no matter if your hand is a group 1 hand or a group 5 hand?

No. The idea is to mix-up your play. If you become predictable, you are giving too much information to your opps.

Originally Posted by asianvato

I have also heard that it is good to mix up your raising like raising only $2 every once in a while with AA when you would usually raise $5 or raise $5 with QJo when you would usually only raise $2. What does everyone think?

I dont like these examples,... For AA (to change it up), I would try a limp/raise or a lead raise. QJo isnt that strong. I might limp from behind or raise on the button.