DECISION POINT: You’re in a $2/$5 cash game, and the player under the gun straddles. The next player to act raises, then another player in middle position reraises. It folds to you in the hijack seat where you’ve been dealt .
What do you do?
PRO ANSWER: In this $2/$5 cash game, the UTG player chooses to straddle to $10. Note that stacks at this table are relatively deep, as we have 150 big blinds to start the hand and several players cover us. We can treat the straddle as a third blind, which means we now effectively have 75 big blinds (750 divided by 10) to start the hand.