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Bet sizing and how the software works
RedHouse
Member Posts: 242
Ok I have started trying to pay more attention to bet sizing and I have a few beginners questions regarding bet sizing, and some specific things the sky software does. Apologies for the length of the post but I would really appreciate any clarifications on these.
1. Is the convention that most people use when discussing poker with regard pre-flop opening raises i.e 3x 4x 5x referring to raise ‘too’ or ‘by’? For example does a 3x raise on a 0.50/1 table mean that the BB has to call an additional £2 or £3 to see the flop? The quick buttons appear to be raise ‘by’ values, but typing in a value is raise ‘too’.
2. Also when I type a value for a raise after the betting round is started by an opponent the value appears to be a raise ‘too’ value, i.e my opponent has to call the difference to end the round and see the turn card. However when I type a re-raise in a situation where my opening bet has been raised by an opponent, the value I enter is used as an increase to my initial bet, not a raise the bet ‘too’ value as before. A hand on the play money tables where I tried to illustrate this is below. The 26 re-raise on the flop was typed in: Why did my opponent have to call 18 not 10?
3. And finally, when using the quick buttons to raise via a proportion of the pot after an opponents bet post flop, why are the values used based on the size of the pot as would be following me calling my opponents bet, not the current size of the pot?
Any help would be much appreciated, my head hurts J
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MISTER303 | Small blind | £0.50 | £0.50 | £594.00 | |
| JBJ1955 | Big blind | £1.00 | £1.50 | £136.50 | |
| RR17 | Sit out | ||||
| Your hole cards |
| ||||
| RedHouse | Call | £1.00 | £2.50 | £69.00 | |
| BIKER3 | Fold | ||||
| Beast1597 | Call | £1.00 | £3.50 | £94.00 | |
| MISTER303 | Call | £0.50 | £4.00 | £593.50 | |
| JBJ1955 | Check | ||||
| Flop | |||||
| |||||
| MISTER303 | Check | ||||
| JBJ1955 | Check | ||||
| RedHouse | Bet | £8.00 | £12.00 | £61.00 | |
| Beast1597 | Fold | ||||
| MISTER303 | Raise | £16.00 | £28.00 | £577.50 | |
| JBJ1955 | Fold | ||||
| RedHouse | Raise | £26.00 | £54.00 | £35.00 | |
| MISTER303 | Call | £18.00 | £72.00 | £559.50 | |
| Turn | |||||
| |||||
| MISTER303 | Bet | £36.00 | £108.00 | £523.50 | |
| RedHouse | Fold | ||||
| MISTER303 | Muck | ||||
| MISTER303 | Win | £72.00 | £595.50 | ||
| MISTER303 | Return | £36.00 | £0.00 | £631.50 | |
Comments
Clears a few things up in terms of the blinds 3x convention, and the pot sized raised makes more sense now.
I understand that the slider / typing in is a raise 'by' value not a raise 'too' value, guess i'm just surprised it is a raise in relation to my initial bet, not my opponents raise, but just something i'll have to get used to.
Any rule of thumb if you open a round, are raised and want to re-raise the total bet to 3x your opponents raise? what should you type in? That's what i'v been reading is a common play and trying to do.
In the example my re-raise would want to be 48 total, my opponent having to call 32 more.
I could't remember if your initial bet was still displayed anywhere when the action gets back to you or you just had to remember.
Thanks for the help.
Time for a beer, rest / kill off a few cells.
Having said that I had to wait almost as long before a hand where someone raised me and didn't shove.
****
I hit, thought he was bluffing, asked the question, got an answer, put him on an ace and folded.
Job done. :oD
(Incase anyone is reading the hand only and looking for advice = muck it pre)