Define: Kill/Half-kill

[Skadet]

Hi all,

I frequent two cardrooms: Capitol Casino in Sac, and the room at Cache Creek. Capitol plays with a half-kill, and Creek plays both half and full kill.

As I understand it, when a pot is killed, the following happens:

Full Kill: the Killer posts a live blind equal in size to the big blind of the killed amount and the stakes double. Example: 4/8 game killed. killer posts 8 chips and the game is 8/16.

Half Kill: the game is now 1.5x the stake. Eg, 3/6 is now 4/8, 4/8 is now 6/12. No posting required.

I was playing another club and they combined the two (three quarters kill?) -- the killer posts, but the stakes are still only 1.5x. They called it half-kill. I mentioned that in half-kill there is no post and got berated by another player about it.

What am I missing?

[DemonDeac]

i always thought half-kill always posted as well

[NotMitch]

The 2 half kill games I have played in (Circus Circus Reno, MGM Vegas) a kill blind was posted.

edit: typo

[Brainwalter]

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i always thought half-kill always posted as well

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You were right.

[jba]

the half kill must also post

however 3*1.5 != 4 [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[wabe]

Sorry for the hijack, but how are the games at Capitol Casino? What's the rake?

[SenecaJim]

does half-kill-post post the BB or 1/2 the big blind?

[SenecaJim]

not half big blind, but you know, post 6 instead of 8 in a 4/8 1/2 kill game?