Raising your standard raise a small amount = big gains?

[IowaSkinsFan]

I remember a while ago hearing about American Airlines (maybe another airline) taking out one olive from every plane salad and saving $20,000 a month (or maybe it was year).

Anyways i was thinking about this in terms of poker. Lets say your standard raise is 5x BB. How much more money would you recieve by raising 5.25BB, or 5.5BB. I doubt a small increment like this would actually push anymore opponents out, right?

In the long run do you think this would make a significant amount of profit?

[Renton]

I remember a while ago hearing about American Airlines (maybe another airline) taking out one olive from every plane salad and saving $20,000 a month (or maybe it was year).

Anyways i was thinking about this in terms of poker. Lets say your standard raise is 5x BB. How much more money would you recieve by raising 5.25BB, or 5.5BB. I doubt a small increment like this would actually push anymore opponents out, right?

In the long run do you think this would make a significant amount of profit?

This is an excellent point. This is exactly why you should open for no more than pot preflop in a game where that will define villains' hands just as much as raising 4xbb will.

This is especially true with continuation bets. I don't understand the PSB. I think there is rarely a good reason to bet so much, unless you are extracting value from a big hand or trying to cut off odds. I can't see how a PS continuation bet could be +EV at any table. 2/3 the pot does the trick and the risk/reward is much much greater.

[IowaSkinsFan]

yeah, i think in places like 25 NL the difference between a 4x BB raise and a 6x BB raise isn't that much in the opponents eyes.

[Lukie]

The biggest downfall is if you have a tight range, and you are overbetting the pot, more aware opponents are going to give you less action.

ie:

1) full ring, 120bb stacks, tight UTG opens for 3x. Folds to me.

2) full ring, 120bb stacks, tight UTG opens for 5x. Folds to me.

I'm on the button. My range is certainly wider in situation 1 (it's still not a big range, I can assure you). Yours should be too. Obvious though.

[sunfunbunch]

Okay.. then how about only raising bigger WITH position?

[pgil]

dont you kind of want less action from more aware opponents, and more action from less aware opponents though?? if a player of equal/greater skill than you is always respecting your raises and getting out of the way most of the time, then that seems like a good thing as long as there are enough less skilled opponents.