Calling, raising and reraising question

[twiggy]

hey guys,

i am new ish to poker and get some / most the rules i think, well hope i do trying to make a java verison of it atm to try and build some ai bots... anyway this only sort of relates to that.

i played poker with some people i havent played before and there iwas a bit of confusion over the whole raising and reraising bit. there are two examples really heads up and say 4 people playing.

heads up first:

say we are on the flop and player one lays min bet, player 2 calls can either of them raise again? i sota guess player one could, but coudl player 2? i realized that its normally down to the house rules about how many raises / reraises there are in a single round of betting.

4 people version;

on the flop again. player one does min bet, all call.. can anyone else then raise?

The situation i had was it was me and antoher left at the end of teh game, i had a sweet hand and he was running out of chips so getting more cautious, so to try and get him to bet i was putting in less and if he bit then reriasing a couple of times to pull him into the betting. is this even legal, ethical with poker?

side note. if everyone in the hand has called does the first person have to check to say they are nto going to raise?

p.s.. is there a page that explains a lot of your short hand notation coz some of these posts made NO sense to me at all :p

Thx for the help guys and girls,

sorry if this has already been answered in another place i did have a look and had another couple of questions answered already.

p.p.s......... WICKED site and SOOO helpful

Twiggy

[Gunslinger]

If someone bets, and everyone else only calls (or folds), that round of betting is DONE, the original bettor CANNOT re-raise. This applies whether there are 2 or 10 people in the hand.

If someone bets, and anyone else in the hand raises, eveyone after that must fold, call the raise, or re-raise again. You continue until everyone still in the hand has put in the same amount that betting round.

As for the number of raises allowed: if you're playing fixed limit, there's usualy a cap of one bet and three raises allowed per betting round. Some live casinos have unlimited raises in the circumstance that you're heads-up on the river. If you're playing no-limit, there usually isn't a maxinum number of raises, but if more than one person like their hand so much they usually end up all-in soon enough anyways.

[twiggy]

wicked thx for that,

shame in some ways though.. means its harder to pull some in for more money but on the up side means my server is working in the right way already!



Twiggy

[xhi]

Except, of course for the Big Blind (BB) who can when technically being called by everyone/anyone has the opportunity to raise during the first round of betting only.