The Three Kinds of Betting Structures in Texas Hold'em

Texas Hold'em just like any other form of poker has three different kinds of betting structures. These different forms of the game include limit, pot-limit, and no-limit. These different betting structures only effect how much money can be bet at one time, but the configuration of the game still stays the same.

The various forms of Texas Hold'em require different kinds of strategies if you want to be successful. Because there is different amounts of money that you can bet at one time the kinds of cards and in what position they should be played can be very different between the various limits. The amount of risk that you can be put in at one time is also extremely dissimilar between the different forms.

Limit poker would have to be the most common form of Texas hold'em in live cash games. In this form of hold'em bets are structured into two different levels. Examples would be $2/$4 $4/$8 $5/$10. In a $4/$8 table the small blind would be $2 and the large blind $4. $4 bets would be made pre-flop and on the flop; the turn and the river would have $8 bets. All bets must be within the standards of the table unless there is a player who is short stacked and they may go all-in.

No-limit is also a very popular form of Texas hold'em. If you have watched poker on TV it most likely was a no-limit hold'em game. What makes no-limit different is that you can put in any amount of your chips in the pot at any time the action is on you. If a caller does not have enough chips to cover the player that has gone all-in, they can still call with their remaining chips, which will go in a side pot if there are other players still involved in the hand.

Pot-limit is the last and most unpopular of the different betting structure of hold'em. In pot -limit the smallest bet a player can make is that of the big blind and the largest bet they can make is the size of the pot. Though pot limit is more restricted than no-limit these pots can become very large very fast.

These are the three different forms of betting structures in Texas hold'em, you'll have to decide where you want to start. There are advantages and disadvantages of each form.