Quote Originally Posted by oskar
Well, it certainly isn't terrible. I'm not completely convinced that it's the best option to raise that much.


Sometimes I feel like I could do just about anything at 5NL, and still walk out with a profit


Standard for every winning player on the internet is 3-4x the bb to open. This is 5 nl so you want to open to 4x pretty much every time. Add an other big blind for every limper in front of you, and add a big blind if you are in the blinds because you are going to be playing the entire hand out of position so you want to charge them extra for the flop.

4x is .20. You have 3 limpers, so .35 is a good amount to bet. Being out of position I would add an extra bb to that and make it at least .40.

These are fundamentals. You could play tricky if you knew the pot was going to be heads up, but this one is not going to be.