The one thing you really don’t want to do preflop in poker when raising is provide any information. The standard amount to raise in poker is 3 big blinds, and then 1 additional one per player still in the pot. So if you are playing a game where the big blind is $1, and 2 people have called before you and you wish to raise, then you would raise $5. $3 as the standard raise, plus $1 each for each player in the pot already.
Some players like to raise either 2x the big blind or 4x the big blind depending on their hand. However what you can end up doing is making your hand obvious. For example, for the longest time it was known on Pokerstars that if someone was raising 4x the big blind preflop they had pocket aces.
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