by GodlikeRoy » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:09 pm
My standard opening raise is 4BB. If there's a limper, I add 1BB per limper. If someone opens before me, I have pretty predetermined raising amounts. If someone makes it $8, I will re-raise to $24 most of the time. If someone makes it $7, I will make it $23. I think this is a good size to both get action and deny them great odds and the size has been working well for me.
If there's a raise + call in between, I will raise my usual amount and just add the amount of the call on top. So if it was made $7 and one player called the $7, i would make it $23 + $7: $30. In this case, it was made $7, and two players called, so my raise would be to $37, but since we're OOP I usually try and add 10% of my raise to compensate for that so another $4 or so is good here, so around $41.
The more money you can get in preflop when you're almost certain you have the best hand (no reason to put any of them on AA/KK yet, you don't have enough info), the better. It increases the likelyhood that you will win a big pot and makes the hand easier to play postflop.
Poker is silly.
It is not enough to be good at chess, you must also play well.
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.