Minimum Raise
One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen in the past few weeks playing .50/$1 no limit hold em online is the tendency for players to have absolutely no idea how to bet their hands. So many players seem to be paying no attention to the size of the pot or the previous bets before them in order to gauge what kind of is really the best. It’s some of the worst poker moves you can make, allowing your opponent to get in too cheaply and catch cards to beat you.
#1, if you are going to a raise a pot, please, for the love of god, raise more than the minimum!
I can’t tell you the number of times, probably at least 2-3 times around at some tables, where people just love to raise a dollar. It’s a dollar blind, 4 people have limped in, it gets the big blind, and he raises ONE DOLLAR.
Not only is this bad in that you are putting more money in without any extra levity of the other players folding, but you are also giving other players the opportunity to reraise if they limped with a big pair.
There is absolutely no value in min raising in a multiway pot.
The only time I ever minraise is in the rare event that I get a big hand and want to induce players who are just as sick of the minraise to reraise me due to my feigning weakness, but this is a very rare and specific tactic that can work only sometimes against very aggressive players when I also happen to have showed a certain kind of image by not playing a lot of hands strongly.
Maybe worse is when people end up in a big pot and bet out $1 into say a $15 or $20 pot, just screaming for people to raise or worse, call and draw cheaply to inside straights that are hard to put a player on.
Most of the time if I plan to enter a pot I hit the bet pot button. Sometimes I will vary a little depending on position and hand, but you can’t do bad by raising pot preflop, and if you do it every time it becomes impossible for your opponent to assign you a hand based on your bet.
After the flop, I tend to bet 2/3rds of the pot or the size of the pot if I am going to bet at all. There’s simply no reason not to.
Get rid of the minraise. It’s probably the weakest move in poker, unless you have a very specific reason for doing so.
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