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You tighten up. Why? Because the money you lose during these kill pots is much tougher to recoup when the limit goes back to normal. You get involved in a big hand, you can easily lose 20bbs to where in the normal game you'd lose 10. That's a big hole to dig out of. The kill pots generally aren't happening frequently enough to compensate.

One factor to playing more hands is if you're able to isolate and get it HU. Multiway? Pull in the reins. KJo into a multiway kill pot? No way. Think about the size of the bets in comparison to the typical pots you will be playing during this session.

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My gut instinct is to get out of the way but is this a weak approach maybe giving up opportunities?

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Opportunities?

Here's a little secret on kill games that many, more enamored with the kill pot itself, tend to miss. On many kill games, the advantage isn't more-so on the kill pot itself, but on the other, much more common pots, where the players are playing looser trying to get a kill pot active. That's where the bread and butter of playing kill pots is. Not in the once in a while pot that comes around sometimes not for an hour at a time. That's a bonus if you win that one.

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