Dear all,
I wonder what you experts consider to be a standard (or good) size for a reraise when you have position on the original raiser?

Preflop – if there is an opening-raise (R1) of 4*BB from MP, no calls and you reraise with >JJ/AK in LP. How much of a raise would you put in?

Suppose you know this particular raiser will open in MP with the following hands: 99/AQ/AJs (72 hands, of which there are 36 pairs 99+).

2.5*R1 would lay about 1:2.6 pot-odds for the raiser who is OOP.
A miniraise of 2*R1 yields about 1:3.4.
What's your move?

Also related situation: you have limped in and taken a cheap flop in LP with 44 behind 2 limpers, SB completes (Potsize: 5BB). Flop comes AT4, with T4 of same suit. Both blinds check, and there is a pot-sized bet from the first limper. Second limper folds. You read the guy for either AQ-AT or Ax-suited on a strong nut-flush draw with top pair. It is a solid player, but not a real shark.

Action to you. You face a bet of 5BB (current potsize = 10BB).

How much do you reraise? And if you say pot-sized, exactly what does that mean?

Grateful for suggestions!

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Snok

I am still fairly new at this. But when I rereaise it would be about the size of the pot.And as for your second question. I think I would have to move ALL-In on him here.
If he has top 2 he will call, and u have to make him pay for the draw. IMO!

First situation, I would reraise to 12bb total preflop. That's a good sized reraise. This could change if there are any cold callers in there meaning I may just call or reraise more.

Second situation, I would again make it 3x the bet or 15bb. If there is a cold caller or more, I put in 20bb or so. Make them pay for their draw.

As for Zuccala saying to just push all in, that is an option depending on stack sizes. If a raise to 15-20bb is pretty much most your stack, you can just push in because your turn bet will almost be meaningless as everyone would be pot committed. Same goes if all your opponents don't have much left.

Basically, when the raiser is shorter than you and you believe you have the best hand, you want to try and bet in such a way to get his whole stacked committed without scaring him away. Usually, the only way to do that is to raise a decent amount like 3x his bet. Min bets suck.

When you have a full stack and he has you covered, you are trying to get it so that you can go all in and he feels committed to call you because of its relation to the pot sized.

When you both have deep stacks, you are looking to grow the pot as much as possible so you can get him to call bigger and bigger bets.

I really don't like re-raising JJ or AK without special reasons, but as to quantities, here's my initial response:

Once I've re-raised, it's going to take an absolutely horrible flop for me to turn back (3 to a suit, a board of KQJ when I have AA), so, whatever quantity I choose, I cannot give them odds to stack me. And they more than likely will stack me if they can win at showdown.

Hence, let's say someone upfront makes it $4 to go with $100 stacks, and you have AA. If they have a smaller big pair, then it's 7.5:1 for them to set on the flop (only 4:1 by the river, however, which isn't entirely irrelevant if they have an overpair and do see the turn and river). I think I'd make it $20 to go here.