7 Tips on POT-LIMIT RULES
1. If a wager is made that exceeds the pot size, the surplus will be given back to the bettor as soon as possible, and the amount will be reduced to the maximum allowable.
2. The dealer or any player in the game can and should call attention to a wager that appears to exceed the pot size (this also applies to heads-up pots). The oversize wager may be corrected at any point until all players have acted on it.
3. If an oversize wager has stood for a length of time with someone considering what action to take, that person has had to act on a wager that was thought to be a certain size. If the player then decides to call or raise, and attention is called at this late point to whether this is an allowable amount, the floorperson may rule that the oversize amount must stand (especially if the person now trying to reduce the amount is the person that made the wager).
4. The maximum amount a player can raise is the amount in the pot after the call is made. Therefore, if a pot is $100, and someone makes a $50 bet, the next player can call $50 and raise the pot $200, for a total wager of $250.
5. In pot-limit play, it is advisable in many structures to round off the pot size upward to produce a faster pace of play. This is done by treating any odd amount as the next larger size. For example, if the pot size was being kept track of with $25 units, then a pot size of $80 would be treated as a pot size of $100.
6. In pot-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha, many structures treat the little blind as if it were the same size of the big blind in computing pot size. In such a structure, a player can open for a maximum of four times the size of the big blind. For example, if the blinds are $5 and $10, a player may open with a raise to $40. (The range of options is to either open with a call of $10, or raise in increments of five dollars to any amount from $20 to $40.) Subsequent players also treat the $5 as if it were $10 in computing the pot size, until the big blind is through acting on the first betting round.
7. In pot-limit, if a chip or a bill larger than the pot size is put into the pot without comment, it is considered to be a bet of the pot size.
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1. The players will be alerted as to whether the joker is in use.
2. The joker may be used only as an ace, or to complete a straight, flush, or straight flush. (Thus it is not a completely wild card.)
3. If the joker is used to make a flush, it will be the highest card of the flush not present in the hand.
4. Five aces is the best possible hand (four aces and joker).
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1. A pair of jacks or better is required to open the pot. If no player opens the pot, the button moves forward and each player must ante again, unless the limit of antes has been reached for that particular game. (Most games allow three consecutive deals before anteing stops.)
2. If the opener should show false openers before the draw, any other active player has the opportunity to declare the pot opened. However, any player who originally passed openers is not eligible to declare the pot open. The false opener has a dead hand and the opening bet stays in the pot. Any other bet placed in the pot by the opener may be withdrawn, provided the action before the draw is not completed. If no other player declares the pot open, all bets are returned except the opener’s first bet. The first bet and antes will remain in the pot, and all players who were involved in that hand are entitled to play the next hand after anteing again.
3. Any player who has legally declared the pot opened must prove openers in order to win the pot.
4. In all cases, the pot will play (even if the opener shows or declares a fouled hand) if there has been a raise, two or more players call the opening bet, or all action is completed before the draw.
5. Even if you are all in for just the ante (or part of the ante), you may declare the pot open if you have openers. If you are all in and falsely declare the pot open, you will lose the ante money and may not continue to play on any subsequent deals until a winner is determined. Even if you buy in again, you must wait until the pot has been legally opened and someone else has won it before you can resume playing.
6. Once action has been completed before the draw, the opener may not withdraw any bets, whether or not the hand contains openers.
7. An opener may be allowed to retrieve a discarded hand to prove openers, at management’s discretion.
8. Any player may request that the opener retain the opening hand and show it after the winner of the pot has been determined.
9. You may split openers, but you must declare that you are splitting and place all discards under a chip to be exposed by the dealer after the completion of the hand. If you declare that you are splitting openers, but it is determined that you could not possibly have had openers when your final hand is compared with your discards, you will lose the pot.
10. You are not splitting openers if you retain openers. If you begin with the ace, joker, king, queen of spades, and the ten of clubs, you are not splitting if you throw the ten of clubs away. You are breaking a straight to draw to a royal flush, and in doing so, you have retained openers (ace-joker for two aces).
11. After the draw, if you call the opener’s bet and cannot beat openers, you will not get your bet back. (You have received information about opener’s hand that is not free.)
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Craps is about more than just rolling a few dice - that's what makes it one of the most popular online casino games out there. There are plenty of simple tutorials and rule sets, and many people are willing to give you advice on strategies. If you're hoping to increase the frequency of your wins while playing craps, here are a few tips that might help you play online craps or play in a real life casino.
Place as many odds bets as you can, unless you wouldn't have placed a pass or come bet to start off with. Odds bets in craps are among the few casino bets that don't have a house advantage, and the house advantage on pass line and come line bets are only about one and a half percent. You have the best chance of winning on odds bets. That's why you should be generous in placing them. Proposition bets, on the other hand, come down significantly in favor of the casino.
If someone tells you they have a guaranteed system for winning, you should ignore them. There's no such thing, and probability isn't in your favor in almost all cases. What you have to do is be clever to keep the odds from being more in the house's favor. Don't fall prey to the idea that any throw of the dice can influence any other throw, either. They're all independent rolls, and it doesn't matter how often or infrequently a number has shown up - it has the same chance every time.
Unless you know exactly what you're doing, never try to set the dice in an in-person game. You can't control the way the dice fall once they hit the craps table wall, and almost no one is good enough to control how they hit the wall. You cannot change the laws of physics, after all. Online gaming doesn't have this temptation, which can help you avoid being blinded by the hope that you can cheat somehow.
Never depend on the casino to make you money. While it's a lot of fun to play online or offline, gaming should be something you do for entertainment, not for money. Don't develop bad habits and don't overreach your bankroll. Set a loss limit and stick to it like glue. While it can be tempting to keep going, there's no reason to believe you'll get it all back later. If you don't want to worry about things, there's one simple strategy.
If you're up by seventy-five percent to a hundred percent of your bankroll, put the initial amount you budgeted aside, and only bet your winnings. That way, you know you'll come out even, and if you're lucky, you'll even come out ahead. No matter what, however, remember to make gaming fun. Winning at craps is only worthwhile if you're having a good time, and that's what gambling is for.
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