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other casino poker games games the betting
structure might be pot-limit or no-limit.
In a pot-limit games, bets and raises may
be for any amount up to the size of the pot.
Thus, with a $10 pot, someone might bet $10
and be called by three players. The last player
to call can raise $50, the current size of
the pot. If one player calls the raise, the
size of the pot would then be $150 so that
in the next round the first bet could be anything
up to that amount.
In no-limit casino poker games, a player may
bet or raise any amount up to what he has
in front of him/her at any time. If he has
$500 in front of him, he can bet that. If
he has $50,000 in front of him, he can bet
that. He cannot, however, raise a player with
less money out. That player may simply call
with the money in front of him and a side
pot is created for any remaining players.
If his hand prevails, the player who is "all-in"
can win only the money he called in the main
pot, and the best hand among those remaining
wins the side pot. (The same mechanics apply
to limit games when a player is all-in.)
Notwithstanding the great variety of casino
poker games games - high games and low games,
stud games and draw games, limit games and
no-limit games - there is an inner logic that
runs through all of them, and there are general
precepts, concepts, and theories that apply
to all of them. However experienced a player
may be with the rules and methods of a specific
games, like, say, five-card draw, only by
understanding and applying the underlying
concepts of casino poker games can he move
confidently to the expert level. The principles
of such stratagems as the semi- and slow playing
are essentially the same in limit five-card
draw casino poker games as in no-limit hold
'em casino poker games, and they are equally
important. |
