Beginner, Betting Structure Rules For No Limit Holdem

[mgdew]

Hi, and my apologies for any stupid questions I might ask. I can tell from the posts that you guys are all pretty clued up and way above me, but I am trying to learn poker and am playing with some friends.

We always play buy in No Limit Holdem, the main question I have is even after reading numerous websites I cannot seem to understand the betting rules on raising and re-raising before the flop and then after the flop. Can someone help me out with what I am sure is a simple answer that I am just overlooking.

T.I.A

Martin

[poskid_1982]

Easy enough

Dealer deals...Next 2 people are small blind and big blind (in that order). Small blind is always half of the big blind. (exception...0.10/.025) After that everyone is free to bet and raise as much as they want, with only 3 major rules. 1 The original bet can not be lower than the bigblind. 2 all raises after a bet/raise must be the same or larger in size to the bet/raise before it. 3 You can only bet the money you currently have "in chips" at the table.

Should be it...Did I miss anything anyone?

[mgdew]

thanks for the quick reply, some players I have been playing with are telling me that you cannot re-raise, or you are limited to 1 re-raise.

i.e I am under the gun and I raise, then all payers fold except small B who calls my raise, and they raise, big blind calls the r-raise to stay in, and I have a choice to either call the re-raise to see the flop, or raise of the top again.

The players were telling me I could not re-raise as I had already raised once in this round....

I was not sure if they were playing correctly or not, so I played their rules as it was their game, and reverted to calling them all in when felt appropriate, sufficed to say it worked at this game.

[poskid_1982]

As long as all agree to the rules, a rule like that can be made...I dont personally approve of it if you are playing no limit because it LIMITS you. It's called a house rule