03-18-2002, 02:38 PM
(Fixed-limit HE with a full kill. When you first win a pot you earn the "kill off" button, and if you win another consecutive pot >$20 the limits double for that hand, and you post a straddle equal to the new big blind on your kill button.)
Questions:
- Say you have the kill button but the kill is "off" and the hand is not a kill. Should you tighten up somewhat, considering that if you win the current pot you're gonna have to post a straddle equal to what is right now one big bet? (i.e. it's a 5-10 game, and if you kill then you're going to have to straddle $10 the next hand thus robbing your current pot of one big bet.)
- Related to the above, say you are in a kill pot and you were the kill, meaning you posted the live straddle in the double-limit hand. If you win this one, you get to straddle again but it's only 1/2 of a current big bet. Tighten up a little?
- How much does position matter to the above: more or less than usual, and why?
- What if you will kill it in a hand where you're currently sitting UTG ... then you aren't hurt next hand because you would be the big blind anyway. Play normal here?
- Okay, say someone else has killed the pot and posted their straddle on the double-limit hand. Can you losen up a tad, considering that there's a live blind straddle out there to play for? Bear in mind that the double limits may already have scared some of the crickets, so the pickins may already be easier.
I have some ideas on the above but wanted to generate some discussion. My next discussion post will deal with the ever-popular live straddle, the double straddle and the rare but always exciting quadruple straddle.
Questions:
- Say you have the kill button but the kill is "off" and the hand is not a kill. Should you tighten up somewhat, considering that if you win the current pot you're gonna have to post a straddle equal to what is right now one big bet? (i.e. it's a 5-10 game, and if you kill then you're going to have to straddle $10 the next hand thus robbing your current pot of one big bet.)
- Related to the above, say you are in a kill pot and you were the kill, meaning you posted the live straddle in the double-limit hand. If you win this one, you get to straddle again but it's only 1/2 of a current big bet. Tighten up a little?
- How much does position matter to the above: more or less than usual, and why?
- What if you will kill it in a hand where you're currently sitting UTG ... then you aren't hurt next hand because you would be the big blind anyway. Play normal here?
- Okay, say someone else has killed the pot and posted their straddle on the double-limit hand. Can you losen up a tad, considering that there's a live blind straddle out there to play for? Bear in mind that the double limits may already have scared some of the crickets, so the pickins may already be easier.
I have some ideas on the above but wanted to generate some discussion. My next discussion post will deal with the ever-popular live straddle, the double straddle and the rare but always exciting quadruple straddle.