Just curious to know if all of you do the same...

I always raise the same amount of money for every hand I play in NL cash games: 4BB. No mather what the reason is... Raising LP limpers with high suited connect from CO, rasing a big PP from EP, rasing from the button to steal blinds... always 4BB.

The only time I raise it bigger, it's when I'm facing 4 or more limpers. Of course, this doesent apply to reraises.

1st of, do you always raise the same amount of money?
2nd, is there any reasons why I should raise sometime bigger, sometime lower?

Waiting for comments...

KJ

i always raie 3.5bb if im first to open. AA-QQ ill sometime jack up to 4bb, but never less tha n3.5bb.

If a person or two are in the pot, this changes things drasticly, so I will play it by ear.

I laugh @ ppl who make min. raise pf. its pointless.

I vary.. _ If I think it will pay I'll bet up to 1/3 of my stack.

I use minimum raises in late (juices the pot).. If you have many callers and a weak-ish hand like KJ.. a minimum raise will not scare off all the Ax's or PP. You will then get everyone through to the flop. The pot will also be larger and because of other ppls money). Multiple callers forces a degree of honesty on the play . So if you do hit the J then gentle betting may give you a good result. ( The odds are against someone else having the J - and aggressive betting is suppressed because of your intial raise - so you get callers for draws and even mid pair) If someone hits they let you know about it.. the pot is big enough to justify trips betting large - but you will have lost a small proportion of that pot if you fold - so the fold is easier..

A 4bb raise with this hand with callers is unlikely to take down the pot (you just need someone to call and everyone after him has pot odds)

You get some protection against higher pp with this approach. Anyone whose limped in with AA KK early will not tolerate multiple callers and a minimum raise - so they tend to re-raise.

I mix it..Minimum raise early in a game makes me look WT and ppl tend to either bet into me or respect my bets..

3-4 I keep for attacking blinds mid/late..

Interesting

See, I never, but I mean never ever minimum raised in unraised pot before, cause I felt it was pointless. But I now see some value into this.

I'll try to give it a shot...

KJ

Originally Posted by mik1w

I will raise min If im in good position and there are LOADS of callers, and I have a drawing hand like 89s. Make people make bad calls. They think min raise, especially if a couple have called it before them then the pot is large enough to think tis worth calling again.

With a family pot, making a min raise is NOT making people make bad calls, all you are doing is giving them correct odds to call with just about any hand. If you are going to do something, do it for the right reasons. This isn't it.

I think you need to base it on your hand and the table. On some tables a min rase will get people to fold, where on some tables people will call a 3BB rasie with garbage. Likewise, I want to narrow the field more wtih AK than I do with AA, so I will tend to raise a little more with AK. Obviously you can't make the same bet with the same cards all the time, but this is the general principal I follow.