In this article we shall go over the No Limit Texas Holdem game, its rules, its difference to ordinary Texas Holdem game, tips and recommendations.
No Limit Texas Holdem is quite the same in rules to the ordinary type of Texas Holdem game, but has rather different betting structure. No Limit Texas Holdem is a game, where bets are grown very quickly and game tempo is much faster too. This is more a fun than a game and is mostly played by professionals, whose reaction is set quicker upon the circumstances, so this type of game is not recommended for beginners. Let's watch closer over the game's structure.
No Limit game begins with posting blinds, just as in usual game. Starting here No Limit game is quite different to its ordinary type. All players are allowed to rise any amount, which he/she can effort. For example, if the Small and the Big blinds are equal $10 and $15 accordingly, and the first betting player wants to bet $1000 - he may bet, even though such rise is given as an example and is very rare. However, No Limit has the betting minimum too. The allowed size of minimum bet is at least a last bet multiplied x2. For instance, if the last bet is equal $20, the next bet must be $40, because it is a rise of the previous bet multiplied x2. Due to the beginning of the game, if posted blinds are equal $10 and $15 accordingly, the first bet should be at least $30. During the game you can buy chips only in between hands - you may not buy any chips in the middle of a hand.
If you have less chips than your opponent has, it doesn't mean that you are dropped out of the hand. You can call for any number of chips you have and if nobody else is in the pot, then the player who made the bet retreats his chips and the hand is played with no addition betting, but in case if there are any other players in the pot - the additional pot (or "side pot") being created.
What is the Side Pot, how is it determined and played?
The side pots happen both in Limit and No Limit Texas Holdem. However, because of the large bets in No Limit Texas Holdem, side pot situation more frequently occurs in this type of the game. Let's take a look at the following situation: There are three players. They have: 1st player - $2,000 in chips, 2nd - $800 in chips and 3rd - $5,000, while the Small and the Big blinds are $10 and $20 accordingly. In pre-flop betting round, the 1st player bets $100, the 2nd and the 3rd players call. There are no players except of these ones remaining in the game. The pot is equal $330. In the second betting round, when the flop is already dealt, the 1st player bets $1000, but the 2nd has only $700 left. However he likes his hand and calls all-in for $700 remaining. In case if the 3rd player folds, the 1st player will receive $300 back and the hand will be played with no more rising for the purpose of the 2nd player's empty bankroll. In case if the third player considers his hand a strong one and decides to go on, he can choose from two options.
a) call 1st player's $1000, what will create a side-pot of $600 between 1st and 3rd players. The 3rd player is out of this pot, even if his hand will form the strongest one among three players, but he is still in the main pot, which contains $330 and $700 from each player's bankroll, which is equal $2100 of the $2430 total. All three players are in this pot
b) if the 3rd player considers his hand as a winning one, he may move all-in instead of calling 1st players $1000 bet. The 1st player has only $900 remained, this is equal rising 1st players $900 bet.
As you can see, the rise is not equal the previous bet x2, but is allowed, because each player is always allowed to raise all-in, as he is allowed to call for all chips, even though they have no funds to call a full bet. If after the last bet the 1st player has concluded that it is better to fold, then the 2nd and the 3rd ones are remaining to play for the main pot of $2430, but if the 1st player have decided to call the 3rd player's all-in rise, there are still two pots in the game.
The general pot (created in pre-flop position) of $1430, which is awarded to the best of three players, who is declared a winner of the main pot. The remaining side-pot is equal $2400 now and is played among the 1st and the 3rd players, while the 2nd player is not in the pot, because he had nod bet in it. So the strongest hand among the 1st and the 3rd players wins the side pot and in case if one of this hands is stronger than the 2nd players hand - such hand takes both main and the side-pot all together.
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