The great Phil Ivey opens to 500 with his pocket aces and the player on his immediate left three-bets him by raising to 1,300. This lets you know there has been a certain amount of raises prior to their action.Ĭlick this link or the image below to watch an example of a three-bet in action. Sometimes one of these bets is an all-in, in which case you might hear someone refer to it as a “three-bet shove” or a “four-bet shove”.
This also continues with the “four-bet” (the second reraise, or third raise preflop), “five-bet”, and so on. So the initial open (double the big blind) is called the “two-bet”, and the reraise is then the “three-bet”. But poker players and commentators rarely say “reraise” these days, as this play is now commonly referred to as a three-bet.Īlthough widely used as a No Limit Hold’em term, the three-bet actually originated in Limit Hold’em, where players can only raise in fixed limits. If you watched a lot of poker on TV during the poker boom, you would have heard the word “reraise” a lot in the commentary (and even from the players themselves when announcing their intentions). A three-bet is therefore the first reraise (i.e. When a player opens preflop and you raise them, you have actually three-bet them.
