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it affects the game, but so little that there is almost no adjustment for it.

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So if you are playing in a 3-6 kill game and the upcoming hand is a kill, you shouldn't treat the hand as a raised preflop and tighten up appropriately? Or would you play your "normal" style in a kill hand, just like a non-kill?

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The are two primary reasons you tighten up against a raise: someone showed strength, and your pot odds/implied odds are worse. Obviously a kill blind didn't show any strength by posting. As to the pot odds, in a normal hand of 3/6 with a 1/3 blind structure, an openraiser is getting 4/6 on his money while an open limper gets 4/3. In a kill hand of this same game, an open raiser gets 10/12 (or 5/6) on his money while an open limper gets 10/6 (or 5/3), so your pot odds are actually better. For implied odds, the bets are doubled after the flop, and your initial investement entering the flop is exactly double what it would normally be so this doesn't change unless your opponents are tightening up in kill pots, which is entirely possible.