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Great thread guys, but I have a question.

What happens when it's already opened for a raise in front of you and you have a hand good enough to re-raise.

How do you size that kind of bet?

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re-raise to size of the pot.

e.g. $25NL we have KK in the CO and UTG+1 openraises 4BB, and it's folded to us.

We want to re-raise for value with our KK everytime here in position.

the pot started with the blinds 0.35 and UTG+1 raised 4BB so presently there is 1.35 in the pot.

We call the 4BB raise and the pot now stands at 2.35, so we want to raise a further 2.35 so that if UTG+1 wants to call (lets assume the blinds fold) he is faced with calling our raise with onl 1:1 pot odds.

In this spot our total reraise amount is $3.35 ($1 to call the original raise + $2.35 (the size of the new pot after we call the raise))

After our raise UTG+1 has to call $2.35 into a pot of $4.70 which basically means he is making a mistake calling with most of his hands, and the more mistakes we can get the villains to make the more money we win [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

There is a "bet pot" script which you can find in the software forum that automates this amount for Party - and Full Tilt and UB have "bet pot" buttons which do the same as well.