Poker kill game IV
In poker games when a full kill is being played and the minimum bet in the first round is the same as the kill blind the stakes of the game become twice the betting limits. So, for a limit game of poker played for $25/$50, the kill stakes will become $50/$100 for that hand and the pot that gets built up by this doubled limits is termed as the kill pot.
There are some variation of the full kill, such as the half kill and the double kill. Unlike the full kill, where the kill blind is double the size of the big blind, the concept of half kill is based on the fact that the kill blind is now 1.5 times the value of the big blind. This also calls for the betting limits of the hand to be adjusted accordingly. So, for a $30/$60 limit game, a half kill will be equal to $45 and the new betting limits become $45/$90. There are some situations when in a game both the full kill and the half kill are used. So winning consecutive pots may activate a half kill and when even the half kill pot is won, then a full kill is triggered. If the size of the pot is the cause of the kill getting activated then, the half kill size is normally 10 times the large bet value while the full kill size is 15 times.
An important variation of the kill game is the double kill where both the half and the full kill comes into play in a single poker game and a kill gets triggered while another kill is being played or when the full kill gets doubled. So for the $25/$50 limit game, the double kill happens when the pot value becomes $1000. Alternatively, a player with four back-to-back wins can activate the double kill. Double kill pots are huge as the betting limits may be three or four times the normal bet amount; for example, in a $30/$60 game limits become $90/$180 or $120/$240.
