[BigRedAce]

Kill pot doubles the limits for the table under certain circumstances. In hold'em, kill is usually active when a player wins 2 pots in a row. Sometimes there is a size-of-pot qualifier (i.e. if youwin $50 then steal the blinds, the next pot isn't killed).

When the pot is killed, the player with the kill button must put out a blind equal to the new big blind. All bets are now doubled for that hand.

Example: $3-6 with a full kill.

You've just won 2 pots in a row and you now have the KILL button in middle position. Even though it is not your blind, you need to put $6 on top of the KILL. The blinds still put out $1 and $3 but players must come in for $6. Bets after the flop double to $12. (NOTE: if you were in the blind, your kill bet counts as your blind).

Some games are half kill. In the case of a $2/4 table, 1/2 kill pots would be played 3-6.

In Omaha H/L, kill pots are usually the result of a scooped pot. In the 5-10 Full Kill game at the Mirage, you need to scoop the pot and have more than $75 in the pot. Happens a lot, like playing 10/20. In Stud 8b Kill is usully called Scoop.

And a note on straddling: don't do it unless you don't care about your money and/or you want to piss off the table. I've never seen it referred to as a good strategy in any 2+2 book...