Online Poker Betting Structure
The game's limit is a definition that is dependent on the
financial aspect of the game you are involved in. There are two
types of online poker games if we look at poker from the money
point of view: there are the low-limit games and the high-limit
games. The high-limit games are the games where lots of money
are being played and bet. Low-limit games are at the other side,
they are games with little money involved.
Betting structures are based on limits imposed to each bet that
is done in the game. Looking at this aspect we can distinguish
four types of games:
1. The fixed-limit games
These games are sometimes named the structured limit games.
Wherever there is such a game it means the players will only bet
the amount that was set previously. Of course a bet is equal to
the small blind and the big blind is double. For more
information, when naming such a game, people use terms like
$2/$4, $15/$30 games. This way the player that wants to enter
the poker room knows from the start what he or she will be
betting. Let's say you are playing in a $2/$4 game. This means
you will bet $2 at a time, this being the amount that will be
placed as a bet on the flop and pre-flop, with the exception of
the big blind of course. On the turn and on the river however
the bets will double and every bet's value will be $4. There is
also a limit of bets per round. Every player is only allowed 4
bets per round. That means something like betting once, calling
a re-rising, and be raised again.
Sometimes there are structured games that have three amounts in
their name, like $2/$4/$8. The bets will be placed the same as
described before, with the exception that when getting on the
river, the bet gets doubled again, so from the initial $2 on the
pre-flop and flop, it doubles on the turn to $4, and then it
doubles again on the river to $8. But the players are not
obliged to place that re-doubled bet on the river. They have an
option here, they can either bet $4 or $8, whatever suites them
the most.
2. The spread limit games
These are games that include the betting amount within an
interval of values given by the name of the game. These games'
names will contain the numbers that limit the bets. For example
in a $4-$8 game, players can place any bet as long as it is at
least $4 and at the most $8. You can bet anything between $4 and
$8 during any round.
We can find games that have four amounts in the name, like :
$4-$8-$10-$12, this means that on the first two betting round,
pre-flop and flop the player can bet between $4 and $8, on the
third betting round, the turn, the player can bet anything
between $4 and $10, and finally on the river the upper limit of
the bets is increased to $12, so the bets can be anywhere from
$4 to $12.
Although less encountered, there are games that have three
amount in their name, like: $4-$8-$10. This only mean that until
the river the bets are between $4 and $8, but once reaching the
river the upper limit will increase and the bets can be placed
using amounts from $4 to $10.
3. The pot limit games
In these types of games the bets are flexible, the only things
that are settled are the amounts for the small and big blind.
The bet can be anywhere from the big blind up to the size of the
pot in that particular moment. Sometimes two money amount are
used to express such a game, like $5-$10. This only means that
the small blind is $5 and the big blind is $10, and the fact
that the minimum bet is equal to the big blind, meaning $10 in
our case. There can occur rules like the one that allows the
pre-flop bets to be 3 or 4 times the size of the big blind, but
this depends from game to game.
4. The no limit games
Basically in these games you can bet almost anything. Anything
between the size of the big blind and the money you still have
on the table, of course. This games can be referred sometimes as
, for example, $5-$10 games, and this means as in the latter
situation that the values of the blinds are given and the bets
will have to be bigger than the last value, the value of the big
blind.
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