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What does half-pot-limit mean?

What is the means of half-pot-limit?

Expalin the half-pot-limit?

Jan 20th, 2008 21:52
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In half-pot betting the maximum bet is half of whatever is in the pot.
In a head-to-head contest, HP pots and bets double with each additional
bet or raise, so four bets or raises increase the pot by a factor of 2 x
2 x 2 x 2, or sixteen times. Pot-sized bets triple the pot, giving 3 x 3
x 3 x 3 or eighty-one times the original pot after four bets or raises,
in a head-to-head contest.
Half-pot is the smallest of the big-bet games, and like its big brothers
pot-limit and no-limit, it provides plenty of scope for using position
and well timed bluffs to win with inferior hands, and the pot builds
quickly when you are betting for value. At the same time the more
moderate bet sizes mean that half-pot games last much longer than
pot-limit or no-limit games with a given amount of money available.
Half-pot games are much easier to keep alive than pot-limit and no-limit
games, and this alone makes them worthy of consideration as a big-bet
option.
Half-pot, like limit-betting, is a game which provides reasonable odds
for a call -- 3/1 in a head to head contest, as opposed to 2/1 in
pot-limit -- and as a result there is more action and multi-way pots
than in pot-limit and no-limit. Because half-pot is a big-bet game, bets
and bluffs do not decrease in effect as the hand progresses, as they do
in limit, where a final round bet can be as little as two or three
percent of the pot. In effect, half-pot combines the best features of
pot-limit/no-limit, and limit-betting: it has multi-way action,
favorable pot-odds and reasonable bankroll longevity, like
limit-betting, and it's also an excellent bluffing form in which pots
and bets build quickly, like PL and NL.
Here is a chart comparing half-pot and pot-limit pot sizes and bets in a
50-100 (cents or dollars, depending on your BR) game of holdem. In this
example the opener raises, and then bets at every round, and one player
(other than either of the blinds) calls at every round, and then raises
and is called at the end. The pot size at the start of each round
includes all bets and calls for the preceding round, so the pot at the
start of the second round in the half-pot column is 150 (blinds) + 100 +
125 (call and raise) + 225 (call) = 600.
   Half-pot                                  Pot-limit
Start:  call 100, raise 125                       call 100, raise 250
Flop:   pot 600, bet 300                          pot 850, bet 850
Turn:   pot 1200, bet 600                         pot 2550, bet 2550 
River:  pot 2400, bet 1200                        pot 7650, bet 7650
        raise 2400, final pot 9600                raise 22,950, final
pot 68,850
The rapid escalation of the bets means that a hand of PL in which there
is serious action at every round of play is something of a rarity,
because players with average bankrolls tap out after three or four bets.
Four rounds of action, even multi-way action, is common in half-pot play.
Pot-limit is good, but half-pot lasts longer.
While it is perfectly understandable that some players will always
prefer pot-limit to half-pot -- and if bankroll conditions and the
players are right I like it myself -- I believe it is a mistake to
dismiss half-pot as a big-bet game. A half-pot game can survive for
years in a situation where a pot-limit game would quickly break many of
the available players and revert to limit-betting. The situation in the
USA and Canada -- where pot-limit games can be hard to find -- is a
reflection of this tendency of limit games to push out pot-limit.
Players who prefer big-bet poker but who spend most of their time
playing limit because the pot-limit game folded again, (or because their
own bankroll can't handle the big swings) might consider half-pot
betting as an alternative, if not to pot-limit, at least to limit-betting.
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