Here's a neat move I used playing at Crypto $100PLO. I'm in MP with $101 and get Ac Jd Jh 3s. I limp, the player nest to me min raises, and 4 see the flop. Flop is Th Kd Qd. 2 players check to me, I check, and the other MP (who raised pre-flop) bets $3 into an $8 pot. MP has $16.25 left after this bet. BB calls and the other guy folds. BB has just less than me left. I wasn't sure whether to raise here or just call. If I raised, I could get MP all-in, but I like to slow down with vulnerable straights on the flop. If BB called the raise and hit, I would have lost more than was, perhaps, necessary. I called.

Turn was the 2h. BB checked and I bet $16 into the $17 pot. I didn't bet the full pot because MP had $16.25 left and I thought that, if he was going to call my bet, he would put the extra $0.25 in too and allow me the option of re-raising if BB called. As it happens (otherwise this post wouldn't exist!), that is exactly what he did. And it worked like a dream when BB called the $16.25 but folded to my pot re-raise! The river was the 9d and I picked up a decent pot. MP had Kh 8d Qh 4h.

Does anyone else use this tactic when they get the chance? It's a nice little move. It also throws in the possibility that the other player (BB in this case) will fold as they fear the re-raise.

Martin

interesting play to get that reraise in but don't most sites NOT allow you to reraise like that unless the all in player makes a legal sized raise (double your bet)?

I'm not sure, to be honest, Briachek. At crypto, where I spend most of my time, you obviously can re-raise there. That's an excellent point if the other sites don't allow it though - it would make the play pretty much useless! Back to the drawing board!

Martin