Hello,

I hope you don’t mind if I ask something about betting.

Let’s say for an instance, in a no limit game, the blinds are 50/100. Then there is player 1 who is the first one to act after the big blinds and a raise to 300, players 2 and 3 fold to player 4 who eventually places a 500 chip.

Player 1, being dissatisfied discoursed that a re-raise less than double the original bet is not possible. Any idea?

Somehow, I thought that a re-raise was only bound to the minimum of the big blind, therefore if someone places a bet of 300, I could make it 350 or so. Do you think, the minimum raise should be twice larger than the bet placed earlier? And one more thing, is this the same thing at all betting rounds?

Thanks!
Jacob
Jacob,

Once a pot has been raised, the re-raise must be in the amount of the previous raise. In your example above, since your opponent raised by 200, the reraise must be at least 200. Player four’s bet off 500 was a call of 300 and a 200 raise.

This applies to all streets of betting.

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