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easy raise to 40BB


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wow that seems like a lot. more than the pot after that 3rd spade comes

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After calling the 4 BB, the pot would have 40.5 BB in it, so raising to 44 BB would be a pot-sized raise, giving the villain 2:1 odds to call. MP1 would be getting slightly worse odds, 20:11.

Many people don't seem to know how large a pot-sized raise is. When you make a real pot-sized raise, rather than raising to the size of the pot before they bet, they say, "OMG! Nice buy, fish." If they don't realize what pot-odds they are getting, it is easy to steal from them, since you can cheaply represent a monster to them.

That said, if the villain will fold any worse hand to a pot-sized raise, it would probably be wrong to raise that much. It is part of the problem to figure out if that is the case.