Alternate way to calculate betting the pot

[Bang584]

Your formula is good, just make one small change.

(3 + Callers)(LargestWager) + (AdditionalMoney) = PotSizedBet

Where Callers is the number of callers of the largest wager.

1/2 NLHE, preflop, $10 raise, two callers, you would calculate a potsized bet as:

(3+2)($10) + ($3)=?
$30 + $20 + $3 = $53

For your half-pot formula, you could make the following change.

(3 + (0.5)(Callers))(Largest Wager) + (0.5)(Additional Money) = HalfPotBet

A little more complicated, but still correct.

5/5 NLHE, preflop. Raise to $20, two callers, you would calculate a half-pot bet as:

(2 + (0.5)(2))($20) + (0.5)($10) = ?
$40 + $20 + $5 = $65

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