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I’ve seen 1/2 Kill listed on games on Bravo at times and looked it up but I’m still not 100% on what this means. From what I read it sounds like there is a 3rd blind in play? How does this work? Just curious as to what it is.
In a kill game it becomes a kill pot once someone has won a pot back to back. So in 1/2 Kill say you won 2 pots in a row SB and BB posts the $1 and $2 blinds and you post a $4 wherever you are sitting and its kind of like a straddle and you still have an option. But say you won the pot again it only doubles once so you’d just have to post the $4 “kill blind” again.
You tend to see kill variants for LHE rather than NLHE though.
Kills are used in structured betting games since you can’t normally raise a large amount as you can in no-limit or pot limit games. It gives a chance for extra action on a single given hand.
In a split-pot game, a kill is usually awarded for scooping a pot of over 10x big bet; in a single pot game, a kill is usually awarded after a “leg-up” which means you kill after a player wins two hands in a row.
In structured betting, the number of chips matter. A $3-6 game is the same as a $9-18 game is the same as a $75-150 game — the only difference is you bet with $1, $3, or $25 chips respectively.
In a full kill, the betting doubles for that hand. So, in a $3-6 game, with a Kill on, the betting is $6-12.
In a half-kill the betting is 1.5 for that hand. So, in a $4-8 game, with a half-kill on, the betting is $6-12.
Once a player is awarded the kill, the put in a third blind bet of the small kill bet. Its house rule whether this is a hard-rock straddle or if it is just a blind bet and acts in turn. In most games I play, it is a hard rock, or in other words, action starts to the left of the kill, instead of the usual UTG location.
Structured betting in hold’em is simple — the small blind is 1/2 the small bet and the big blind is the small bet. All betting pre-flop and on the flop is based on the small bet and all betting on the turn and the river is based on the big bet. So, in a $15-30 game, the small blind is 5 or 10 (depending on whether this is a 1-3 or 2-3) and the big blind is $15. Raises must go in increments of $15 (three $5 chips). On the flop the first bet is 3 $5 chips and raises in increments of the same. The turn and river is double or 6 $5 chips to bet or raise increment.
Hope that helps.
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