Open raise
An open raise is the first raise before the flop, made when everyone before you has folded.
A common size online is 2 to 2.5 big blinds. The range of hands to open grows with every seat closer to the button, because fewer players are left to act.
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Practise decisions like this in the trainer: ten hands at a time, with the answer and the reason.