Your opponent’s range will still have many hands like AK, AQ, KQ, KT, and others that will not be too happy on many different turns. There are countless turn cards that will favor your perceived range over your opponent's, and that will freeze him from putting in more bets on the turn, depending on his actual holding. If you call the bet here, you are representing many different hands, some of which are already strong and others with a lot of drawing potential, such as flush and straight draws. Yet, this hand has some potential as a float. You have a hand that hasn’t connected with the board and is unlikely to be best at this point. With $7.5 in the pot, the dealer puts out a flop of Jc7h6h, and the original raiser puts out a bet of $4. Playing a $0.5/1 cash game online, a middle position player raises to $3, you call the button with Ac9c, and the blinds fold out. Now that you have a general idea of what a float is, let’s look at a particular situation in which you can apply floating in your game.

Define float in poker