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.
