Hiya!

I normally reraise an unknown player only with KK/AA. When I do that in position, I make the reraise about 3 times the original raise (laying about 1:2.2 odds).

In general, should one be more or less inclined to reraise preflop if there is one or more callers in the pot already?

[PFR +… C1 + … C2 +… RR]

And should one increase or decrease ones standards for a reraise?
And should one increase the size of the reraise to reflect the bigger pot size?

My thinking (which may be totally wrong) is that any extra callers after the PFR should make me MORE inclined to reraise, and that the size of my raise should be BIGGER (to give about the same 1:2+ odds), and that I can reraise with slightly WORSE hands (QQ-AA/AK). The reason being that the callers are likely to have stuff like low pockets, and will fold thus leaving dead money in the pot. And possibly, the raiser was cute (like Ice!) with a 76s and folds facing a RR and some callers.

Is this OK thinking or am I way off as usual?

Best regards,
Snok

actually that sounds about right. the more players in, the bigger your reraise should be to protect your hand.

Depending on levels you should be carefull raising the same amount with certain hands. If you only reraise with AA, KK and its 3x every time, a decent player is going to pick up on that. If you are playing $100 nl or lower dont worry about it. Though as kenny said your theory of reraising more with more people in the pot makes alot of sense. Since there is dead money in the pot if three people call the first raise you are going to need to raise more to isolate one opponant which is exactly what you want to do with AA or KK.

Yeah, that sounds about right to me too.

But how to deal with same issues when you are OOP?
Say you sit on AKs or QQ in the blinds?

What's your thoughts then?
/Rush

Kenny and Rhound!

Is my outlined approach what you guys actually do?
Do QQ and AK become true reraising hands with the presence of the extra callers?

Also, picking up on the actual reraise size? What is a correct approach? I can't see that making smaller reraises will ever be any good.

If I only reraise good hands (and most players including Ice seem to think that doing anything else is a mistake), then they pretty much know what I have anyway.

Right?

Rush:
I don't know about OOP - hopefully some better players here will answer that one!

/Snok