PLO With Bring In

[ellenwheels]

In a Pot Limit Omaha game with 1/2 blinds and a $5 bring-in...if someone wants to straddle, what is it?
Secondly because I really don't understand Pot Limit, with 1/2 blinds what would be the pot raise?

[chucky]

A pot raise as first person in a pot would be 5 dollar raise, so the raiser puts in 7 dollars. A max pot raise is calculated by the price to call the current bet + the entire pot including size including your call.

[sirtimo]

$10

the amount you can raise is the amount of the pot with your "call" in it. For example, $1/2 blinds UTG brings in for $5, UTG+1 calls for $5. You want to raise the pot:

$1 + $2 + $5 + $5= $13

+ ($5) the action to you if you only called

= $18 pot

(most 1/2 games will usually round up to the next $5 when figuring the pot size)

so pot size is $20, you raise pot, putting in a total of $25 , the $5 action to you plus your pot raise.

[psandman]

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A pot raise as first person in a pot would be 5 dollar raise, so the raiser puts in 7 dollars. A max pot raise is calculated by the price to call the current bet + the entire pot including size including your call.

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In Cash games it is traditional to treat the small blind as completed. So in a standard $1-$2 game the max opening raise is to $8. have not dealt a $1-$2 pot limit game with a $5 bring in, but I would expect that in such a game you would treat both blinds as completed to $5 and then the opening raise would be to $20.

[chucky]

In cash games it may be "traditional", but in every on-line PLO situation i have played in we dont act as if sb has completed. This includes MTT, SNGs and cash.

[AngusThermopyle]

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In a Pot Limit Omaha game with 1/2 blinds and a $5 bring-in...if someone wants to straddle, what is it?

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A straddle is usually the min-raise for the game. So that would be $4 in your case, but since the original bring-in is for a pot sized raise, I would say the straddle should be $5 also.

If you continue with the concept of a pot-sized raise as a bring-in, you would have a bring in of (1+2+5+5) + 5 = $18 total when you have a $5 straddle.

[RR]

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A pot raise as first person in a pot would be 5 dollar raise, so the raiser puts in 7 dollars. A max pot raise is calculated by the price to call the current bet + the entire pot including size including your call.

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In Cash games it is traditional to treat the small blind as completed. So in a standard $1-$2 game the max opening raise is to $8. have not dealt a $1-$2 pot limit game with a $5 bring in, but I would expect that in such a game you would treat both blinds as completed to $5 and then the opening raise would be to $20.

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An easier to express this is the max opening raise is 4X the big blind. To the OP if you are playing 1-2 PLO with a min $5 bring in I would say that the straddle would be $5.

[ellenwheels]

Well, in this particular game they made the straddle $10.

[crashjr]

Caesars LV on Sunday afternoon?

I thought 10 was the correct answer. Five would also be acceptable. The min. bring in being 5, the straddle should be twice that. A live blind bring-in doesn't really make sense to me - I think it should be double - but I know people that view 1/2 5 to come in games as similar to a 1/2/5 three blind game, but without the third blind. In that case, $5 makes sense.

$4 makes no sense to me, as it is below the minimum bring-in.

[crashjr]

I think as an improvement on the Caesars 1/2 5 to come in PLO game, it could easily be run as a 2/3 blind 5 to come in. That way, there is no real question that a straddle is to 10, and a pot sized open bet is 15.