NL Straddle ruling

BrentV

Doesn't make too much difference but it got me thinking. This situation happened in a 1-2 NL Hold'em game, UTG straddles and next up wants to min. raise. Is the minimum raise $6 or $8?

I saw on high stakes poker this Monday (they play $300-$600 NL Hold'em) that the minimum raise after the $1,200 straddle was $2,400, so in this case it was 2x the straddle but the houseman at the casino I'm was playing in said it was $6 for the minimum. Anyone know what the correct ruling is? I'm leaning on the 2x the straddle myself since the room is pretty new and the houseman might have not known this kind of obscure ruling.

13CARDS

$1 small blind, $2 big blind, $4 straddle, $6 is minimum raise (in most places!) as the raise was by $2 (from $2 to $4) therefore the next raise must be at least equal to that (from $4 to $6).

Raises are not based on "times" tables but by a specific amount...the amount of the previous bet or raise.

STR82ACE

Wouldn't that technically be a re straddle?

-ev

Places I play, 'live' re-straddle would require double the previous straddle - 8, 16, 32 and so on. A 'dead' min-raise would be to 6.

DrTyore

STR82ACE wrote: »

Wouldn't that technically be a re straddle?

Not quite..

It's a raise, so if it's called around to him, he wouldn't have the option to jack it up again.

Mark

Kristy

I actually played in a place a few times where the straddle amount was at your discretion!!! (meaning you could blind straddle or re-straddle to whatever amount you wanted)

and yes...I re-re straddled all in.

GTA Poker

You can straddle the min raise to 6 up to all in.

BigChrisEl

I personally think straddling is stupid. I've seen people do it in limit games and I’ve seen them do it in 1-2 NL games were a standard raise pre-flop is $10 to $15.

Too many people just want to be like the big boys on TV.

GTA Poker

Straddling in NL cash games can be a profitable play depending on the table and your style of play, etc, etc. In full-table limit cash games it is an overall losing play, but can open-up the table somewhat and thus change your expectations over a session if you have no choice of table change.

fdart17

how does strateling work anyways i done get it?

GTA Poker

fdart17 wrote: »

how does strateling work anyways i done get it?

well, first y'all takes yer cousin and giver her da moonshines, then ya pin 'er down...

DrTyore

Basically it's like buying the position of the big blind

If you're under the gun, you put in a min raise, declaring 'straddle' without looking at / before getting your cards. It essentially becomes a three blind game then. It means that it now costs 2xBB to call, and when it gets around to you again, you act as if you're the BB, meaning you have the option of checking / raising before we see a flop.

Mark

schabs

Straddling works if your left of the BB, like in a $1/2 NL game, SB puts $1, BB puts 2$, and the player LEFT of the BB has the option of putting $4 in. Now if that player puts $4 in, the player LEFT of the straddler can opt to put in a "blind raise" and since the straddler put $4 in, the minimum raise is to $8. People pretty much do it, to get last to act before the flop. I've really only seen people with big stacks doing it, I've even done it a few times.

cadillac

fdart17 wrote: »

how does strateling work anyways i done get it?

The following is a Mississippi Straddle. There are many, many Pokerforum.ca users who are intimately familiar.

fdart17

ty, would seem like a waste of money in most situations, but can be useful sometimes. Thanks again!