raising or re-raising an all in player

[pokerTim]

When is the best time to either raise or re-raise a player or players that have gone all in?

Is it advisable to do? I have thought about doing it, but I am not sure when the best time to do it is. I guess I would need a pretty strong hand to do it with for starters.

[arras]

When is the best time to either raise or re-raise a player or players that have gone all in?

If I understand your question, you do it when you want to isolate the player who is all in with a good hand but not great hand. You would also want to do it if you were very strong and his all in bet is not very many chips to the average player at the table.

[Skribbles]

Me no understand.

Example?

[MasterShake]

I had a situation where a really tight player went all in for about half the pot. A maniac to his left called the all in. I had the K high flush and re-raised all in because the maniac had committed himself to the pot at that point and I didn't think he had me beat. My reasoning was that I wasn't going to fold, I couldn't lose anymore money to the tight player except the money I was going to call with anyway, even if he had me beat. With all of that money out there, the maniac was most likely going to call and since the board was complete it was the only way to get more money out of him.

[jimmer]

I'm not sure i fully understand your question.

It's a good point, after all, most players end up going all-in a few times per torny.

There are many situations where you would raise/re-raise someone who is already all-in. There are also situations where you would not raise/re-raise an all-in.

Can you give us a specific example of what you're asking?

[MrDarling]

Like stated above, if a SS goes AI in a MTT, get few callers and you look at a huge hand, You might want to push again, reducing the field and taking all that dead money. For example I'll do it with A's to J's but probably wont do it with T's or lower.

If post flop, and you think SS might has you beaten, but you pretty sure that other players don't, choose which ever action you think will get them to put more money in the pot.