I am about 95% certain I am right on this one, please tell me I am not a donk and made a bit of an ass of myself.
The question concerns the ability to reraise an allin bet in NLHE. We were playing a wild 50NL game last night. There is this one kid who is decent, very LAGgy (shocking I know), who thinks he knows it all. He wasnt even in the hand btw, but his (preganant!) girlfriend was.
Basic action is pot is raised, then a reraise allin by the girl (very short stack, like 10xBB). I am in the BB with JJ. The kid states there is no reraise possible. I was pretty sure that I could have, but I was strongly leaning toward just calling, which I did. There were then two callers of the allin reraise.
Flop comes JT4 w/ two spades. So I flopped the nuts, but a draw heavy board. I am first to act and lead out for $10 (I think about half the pot). Player to my left calls with like $14 behind
; next player goes allin for $19.50. The kid, who is dealing, calls out the action and states "$9.50 more, no more raises". I state that I can indeed raise, as long as the raise was at least half of the original bet. He says no you cant it has to be a complete raise to be able to reraise. We go back and forth a little bit, and I ask if he wants to put some money on it. He says no, but that he is right. I say whatever and just call, only because the only other player in the hand only had about $4 more after the $9.50. It was really a moot point because if he was gonna play, obviously the money was going in no matter what the turn was.
When the hand was over I said that I wasnt 100% sure about the rule, but I was close. The only reason I am not certain, is because I think I remember reading somewhere that SOME casinos have the rule that it must be a full raise to be able to reraise.
So, long story way to f'n long.
IN a nlhe ring game, if a re-raise allin is more than half, but less than a full raise, can you then re-re-raise.
Thanks gang.
btw...my top set help up for the biggest pot of the night. I ended up about $100 for the night!!