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What is the exact rule for calculating a pot bet in PLO?

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  1. bonflizubi bonflizubi is offline

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    Oct 11th, 2011 (10/11/2011 9:36pm)

    Just curious how you actually calculate a pot bet in PLO. I'm so used to clicking buttons I have no idea.

    Any dealers or anyone else know?
     
  2. Camarss Camarss is offline

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    Oct 11th, 2011 (10/11/2011 10:28pm) in reply to bonflizubi

    The confusing part about it is that you have to first include your calling the bet into the pot before making the calculations. Lets say the blinds are 50/100, for a starting pot of 150. If you were to only bet the size of the current pot you could only make it 150 maximum raise preflop. But we know that is wrong. You first include your call of 100 making the pot 250. You then add that onto the top of the 100 call you made making the most preflop 350. When making a pot sized bet on further streets it is just the size of the pot. It is the pot sized raises that get confusing because you have to take into account the amount you are calling, look at the size of the pot with your call, then add that number to the call amount to get the pot sized raise total. On flop pot is 500. Someone bets pot of 500, you want to raise pot. So first you would call the 500, making the pot 1500, then add the 1500 to your call of 500 for a total of 2000. Hope I explained that right.
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    Oct 11th, 2011 (10/11/2011 10:31pm) in reply to Camarss

    say it's 100/200 and you want to raise the pot...so you say 'raise pot'...the first 200 that you put out is considered part of the pot, so you add that, plus whatever else it out there to get the total amount of the raiseL there is 500 out there now...add that on top of your 200, and you can make it a total of 700

    if it's 50/100 and there's 2 limps....there is 2 limps for 200, plus the 50 sb and 100 bb , plus your 'call' of the blind, for a total of 450...add that on top of your 100 'call' and your raise would be 550 total


    hope that made sense...


    the best way to do it live is to say 'raise pot' first...so you've declared your action, then put out how much it is to call, and then count everything that's out there, and then put that amount in
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  4. tyson219 tyson219 is offline Moderator

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    Oct 11th, 2011 (10/11/2011 10:37pm) in reply to Gags30

     
    Originally Posted by Gags30 View Post

    if it's 50/100 and there's 2 limps....there is 2 limps for 200, plus the 50 sb and 100 bb , plus your 'call' of the blind, for a total of 450...add that on top of your 100 'call' and your raise would be 550 total

    hope that made sense

    I think. On that last example, the bet would be 550 total, right? it's a raise to 550/raise of 450, right?
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  5. CeJeH CeJeH is offline

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    Oct 11th, 2011 (10/11/2011 10:38pm) in reply to tyson219

    pretty sure thats what he meant
     
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