Poker Bet Types

There is a lot of info you can find on various games like casino slots or blackjack news etc, but to play poker you have to start with online casino bets. In all poker games the gamblers must to make the compulsory poker bet to form the original pot and encourage the gamblers to wager. Let’s study all the types of obligatory bets used in some poker variations separately and in combinations.

BRING-IN

This obligatory poker bet, applied in some poker forms, most of all in tournaments, is made after the cards dealing, unlike the blinds and antes. Bring-in is usually assigned to one poker player to start round of betting and its size is equal lower than the minimum betting amount. The player who must post the bring-in is as a rule determined by the value of his/her exposed cards. It is set by the poker rules. Bring-in is always used in the poker games with the ante structure.

ANTE

This obligatory poker bet is the same for all the gamblers and is placed at the very beginning of the game session before the cards are dealt. The main feature of ante bet is that it is posted by all players at the table with no exception. In the poker versions with antes no other forced bets may applied. Only in some of the tournaments ante bets and blinds are used as a rule.

BLIND

This obligatory poker bet as ante is posted before the dealer deals the cards, but it is posted by two or three players. Commonly there are two blind bets, that are the small and big blind. The small blind is made by the immediate first gambler after the button. The big blind which usually is equal to the min betting amount is posted by the next player after the small blind (the second player after the dealer’s button). In some card rooms the third blind bet is used which is to be posted by the dealer.

STRADDLES

There are also not obligatory bets applied only in the poker forms with blinds. They are known as straddles. Straddles can’t be used in the tournaments.

This poker bet is posted by the first gambler after the big blind. The size of straddle bet has to be higher than the size of the big blind, it is the raise of the big blind bet. If the straddle bet has been made the round of betting begins from the next poker player to the left and finishes at the straddle position. The gambler that posted the straddle may raise the bet and then the betting continues.