Betting Structure: The Straddle
Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 Professional
One more betting “gimmick” that you will often find in card room cash games, that is the Straddle. The straddle is an optional third blind, which is usually placed by the player to the left of the big blind. So, if you were playing in a 4/8 limit game, the blinds would be 2 [...]
Betting Structure: Kill Game
Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 Professional
There are lots of betting variations that inhabit home poker games; wild cards, extra bets, side bets etc. But the “Kill Game” is actually a casino cash game variation. It works like this. Based on some pre-set event, such as a large pot or perhaps two consecutive wins by one player the “Kill” option [...]
Betting Structure: Spread Limit
Date: Sun, May 4, 2008 Professional
Spread Limit is the least common betting structure you are likely to encounter but there are casinos and card rooms from Las Vegas to Moscow that do use Spread Limit. Any game played with a spread-limit betting structure allows a player to raise any amount within a specified range. So, if you are in [...]
Betting Structure: Pot Limit
Date: Fri, May 2, 2008 Professional
Before we get into the details of Pot Limit betting, we should say that Pot Limit games are played a lot more in Europe then in the U.S. and that very good players often feel that Pot Limit is a much more skilled betting game than No Limit. We would also offer that learning [...]
Betting Structure: Fixed Limit
Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 Professional
Limit poker or Fixed Limit poker is a betting structure with both a set bet amount as well as a limit to the number of bets per round. Limit poker is the more common type of game played in a non-tournament setting. The “cash games” or “ring games” in most card rooms are played [...]
Betting Structure: No Limit
Date: Sun, Apr 27, 2008 Professional
The game that has popularized poker is No Limit Texas Hold’em. The No Limit betting structure is seldom applied to other forms of poker, like Omaha, Razz or Stud. The basic rule of No Limit betting is simple: When it is a players turn to act they may bet any or all of their [...]
Tournament Rule #7
Date: Sat, Apr 26, 2008 Professional
This is our second Tournament Director’s Association rule discussion. Note that we are not taking the rules in order, 1 through 40, but rather looking at the rules as we feel they might help a beginning player understand the play of a sanctioned tournament. We will eventually work our way through the entire TDA set [...]