Texas Hold Em Pot Limit

Pot-Limit is the rarest form of Texas Hold’em played today. Don’t sweat the details — you’ll probably play a lot of Hold’em before you run across a Pot-Limit game. Like Limit, Pot-Limit is. Also, poker comes with different betting structures, such as fixed limit, pot limit, and no limit. Texas Holdem Texas Hold’em is one of the most popular poker variants (Omaha poker is derived from Texas Hold’em).

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With mobile Poker having established for a while, players are no longer stuck to No Limit Texas Holdem. In 2015 there are a couple of Real Money Poker Apps out there that have added Fixed Limit Poker to their mobile clients. If you are looking for a Android Poker App, iPad or iPhone Poker App that offers mobile Texas Holdem Fixed Limit or Pot Limit games, our list below is just what you need. Our ranking is updated on a regular basis, making sure that you do not miss a single Limit Poker App.

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• In case you are looking for Omaha rather than Texas Holdem, our Omaha Poker App Overview is the place to go.
• All the NL Texas Holdem Poker Apps can be found here.

Bwin lets you choose: NL Holdem, PL Holdem or FL Holdem

The difference between No Limit, Pot Limit and Fixed Limit

If you are not totally sure what Texas Holdem Poker game variant is the right one for you: Have a look below, where we point out the differences between Pot Limit, Fixed Limit and No Limit.

Texas Holdem Pot Limit Poker

When playing Pot Limit Poker, you are not allowed o bet as much as you might want to. The actual pot size is the limit (you might have guessed it: therefore the name). The rules of Texas Holdem Pot Limit say, that you are allowed to call the raise of another player before the Pot Size is determined. The Pot including your call is the maximum height of your raise.

Example: The Pot is $10 at the end of a round. In the next round the player right in front of you is the first one to raise. He raises $5. Now you can put a maximum of $25 in the middle of the table. $5 to call and another $20 for a pot-size-raise.

Texas Holdem Fixed Limit Poker

Fixed Limit Poker is a little less math. The size of the bet is determined by default. In the first two rounds (pre-flop and flop) the bet size is one Big Blind (called the small bet). In the second two betting rounds (turn and river) the bet size is two Big Blinds (called Big Bet). The number of raises per round is often limited to three or four.

When choosing your Fixes Limit table, you ought to know that the tables are named differently. Instead of the Small Blind and Big Blind behind the table name, you will find the small and big bet behind it in your poker app (which is exactly twice as high).

No Limit

The rules for No Limit Textas Holdem Poker are simple but spectacular: There is no limit. You are allowed to go All-in with all of your chips everytime you make a bet. The only limit is the size of the stack in front of you. Betting your parrot, your car or your girlfriend is not allowed – at least not in online poker and mobile poker. What you do at home is your decision, of course.

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How to play[change change source]

Before any cards are dealt, two players to the left of the dealer make bets which are called the 'Small Blind' and 'Big Blind'. These forced bets must be at least matched by the other players in order to keep their hands. The big blind is twice as much as the small blind. If the big blind was $1000, then it is said that the blinds are 500 and 1000. This money is put into a place in the center of the table that is called the 'pot'

Each player is given two cards face down. These are called the player's 'Hole Cards' or what the player has 'in the hole'. Once all the players have their hole cards, the betting starts. The player to the left of the Big Blind player starts the betting. The lowest amount that can be bet is the amount of the big blind. Players can bet more than the minimum. This is called 'Raising'. The amount a player can raise is determined by the type of the game being played (see below) If a player raises, the amount he raised the bet to is the new minimum. Each player in turn may either 'Call' (pay the current bet amount), Raise, or 'Fold' (quit the hand). This action keeps going around the table until each player has called or folded his hand.

After the first turn of betting is over, the dealer lays three cards face up on the table. This is called the 'Flop'. These three cards are 'community cards'. This means they are used by every player in the game along with the two hole cards each player has. After the flop, another turn of betting takes place. There is no starting bet in this turn (no blinds) unless a player makes a bet. Players may 'Check' or bet nothing if no player before them in the turn has bet. If everyone checks, or if a player bets and all the others call or fold, then the round of betting is over.

Next the dealer lays another community card face up. This card is called 'the turn' (or 4th Street). Another series of betting comes after this. This betting is the same as after the Flop.

Finally the dealer lays the last community card known as 'the river' (or 5th Street). This card is again followed by a turn of betting, calling and folding by the players.

With the five community cards and their two hole cards, each player makes the best 5 card poker hand he can. The player with the best poker hand wins the round and the pot. If two or more players have the same hand, those players split the pot evenly. If one person bets and all other players have folded, the hand ends then and that player wins.

Styles of play[change change source]

Texas Hold'em can be played several ways, including Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit games. The version of the game usually is the maximum a player can raise at any one time.

Limit[change change source]

Limit games have a set amount that a player can raise at any time. If a game has a $10 limit, then a raise must be exactly $10. If more than one person raises, each one can only raise $10 more than the last raise. Typically, there is a 'cap' of 3 raises per round. Also, when playing limit, the bet and raise amount will usually double for the turn and river betting rounds.

Example[change change source]

In a 4 player game, Player A bets $10. Player B raises $10 (puts in $20 total), Player C calls Player B (puts in $20). Player D at this point can either fold, pay $20 (call player B) or raise $10 to a total of $30. Player A would go next and either call (paying the difference between his $10 bet and the current bet). This would continue until all players either call or fold.

Pot Limit[change change source]

In Pot Limit games, the most a player can bet or raise is the total amount in the pot. With each bet or raise, the amount in the pot gets larger. This allows for larger raises.

Spread Limit[change change source]

In Spread Limit games, there is both a minimum and a maximum raise specified. For example, one could play $5–50 spread limit. The big blind would be $5 and the minimum raise would be $5 and the maximum raise would be $50.

No Limit[change change source]

In No Limit, there is not a limit of how much can be bet at any time. That is, it is just like Spread Limit, but with no maximum. A player can bet up to all money as he has. If a player bets all of his money, he is said to be 'All In'. If a player bets more money than another player has, the second player can call by going All In. If only those two players stay in the hand (all other players fold), the first player takes back any money that is over the amount the player going All In has. At this point, all betting stops and the dealer deals out the rest of the cards.

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If a player goes All In and two or more players are still betting, the other betters can raise each other until they both call (or one of them also goes All In). A 'side pot' is made in this case. It is the difference between the final bet and the first person's All In. Only the two players were not All In can win this pot. If the All In player wins the hand, he wins the main pot (his money plus an equal amount from each other player) and which ever of the other two players had the better hand wins the side pot. In an eight player game, it is possible to have several side pots with several people being All In at the same time. If there are not two player left who can bet, betting stops and all players turn their hands over.

Example[change change source]

Player A bets $5000. Player B only has $3000. He goes All In. Player C Raises $2000 (puts in a total of $7000). Player A calls (puts in $2000). At this point, the main pot is worth $9000 ($3000 from each player). The side pot is worth $8000 ($7000–3000 from Players A and C)

If player A or C wins, he wins both the main pot and the side pot ($17,000) and Player B is out of the game since he is out of money. If player B wins, he wins the main pot and the side pot goes to which ever player has the best hand between players A and C.

Tournaments[change change source]

Tournaments are what people often see when poker is shown on television. When a player enters a tournament, he pays an entry fee called the 'buy-in.' Most of his buy-in is placed with other player's money in the prize pool. Usually, a small portion of the buy-in is kept by the tournament officials for their expenses (and profit). The player is given a table and seat assignment, and a certain number of chips - the same amount as every other player. Unlike normal chips, these tournament chips have no cash value (though they often are referred to with dollar amounts). Players must continue to play until they run out of chips. The tournament continues until one player has accumulated all of the chips. The order in which people lose all their chips (or 'bust out'), is their finishing order. That is, the last player to bust out is the second-place finisher. The prize pool is divided amongst a fraction of the top finishers (usually about 10%). The first-place winner usually gets a much larger share, with the prizes diminishing until the prize pool is empty. The player who was the last player to finish without winning any prize is said to have finished 'on the bubble.'

As players bust out of the tournament, the average player's chip stack gets larger. In order to insure that the blinds do not become insignificant in the face of the growth in chip stacks, tournaments are played in timed 'rounds.' At the beginning of each round typically the blinds increase. Every few rounds there will be a short break between rounds. For tournaments that last longer than a day, there will be a last level for the day, and the tournament will resume the next day.

Most tournaments only allow a player to buy-in and receive chips once, at the beginning. These are called 'freeze out' tournaments. Some tournaments allow players to buy-in more than once for the first few levels of the tournament. These players are said to 're-buy' and the money they use to re-buy goes into the prize pool with the rest of the buy-ins.

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