Quote Originally Posted by daviddem
Spoon, aside from the exercise, I hate to contradict you but:

- if we bet 5 into a 7.5 pot, the pot becomes 12.5
- if villain called, the pot would be 17.5. That is the amount he needs to raise on top of his call to make a pot sized raise
- so a pot sized raise would be a raise to (17.5 + 5) = 22.5, not to 17.5.

See here: http://www.cardplayer.com/cardplayer...g-the-pot-size
or here: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/omaha.php

And when you make a pot sized raise, you always lay 33.3% pot odds (2 to 1).
Yeah I was in a hurry and screwed that up (missed adding the call). A raise to 17.5 is still fine for this exercise, though. Thanks for catching that.