Minimum Raises In No Limit
Playing No Limit say the blinds are $1-2 and you are in early postion and you have pocket eights an raise it three times the big blind to $8.00 and in the late postion the player re raises to $16.00 the min. raise he can beware of this raise.Seems every time you are reraised the min. raise you are up against a monster like pocket Aces or Pocket Kings. The player wants you to call the hand because now you have good pot odds to call the odds are 5 to 1 to call the extra $8.00 .The good thing if you dicide to call this hand is that you know what your oppenent has and if you don't catch your 8 on the flop you fold your hand and if you do catch your 8 you can wipe him out of all his money. If you have pocket Aces and someone has raised in front of you what is the best play is to go all in eliminating other players from calling and putting pressure on the raiser if he has A-K or pocket Kings or pocket Queens he will call you and be a huge under dog to you .If he has a low pocket pair he will probably not call you because you have minimized your opponent's implied pot odds. You should be wary of minimum raises at other stages of a hand, as well. Say you raised pre-flop with A-Q and one player called. You hit top pair top kicker on a Q-7-3 board. You bet out the size of the pot and your opponent min-raises you. At this point, you need to be very concerned that your opponent has hit a set. You have to wonder why he'd be raising an amount that almost begs for your call. first is that you should all but eliminate the minimum raise from your game. In some rare circumstances when you hit a full house or quads, it might be appropriate, but that's about it. Second is that alarm bells should go off whenever you see a min raise. Your opponent probably has a big hand and you need to proceed accordingly. |