Poker Betting

If you're looking for some online poker betting action, the Golden Palace Online Poker casino currently offers the world's most popular poker game - Texas Holdem - and you can play it right now, online! Their Texas Holdem poker offers:
9-Player Tables
6-Player Tables for even faster action
Limit, Pot Limit, and No Limit games
Free play or cash play from $0.05/$0.10 up to $10/$100
Both Single and Multi-Table tournaments

To play, simply click the link over there to the right of this text that says "Play real Poker". If you're a newbie to this poker variant, read below for more on Texas Holdem Poker.

If however, you're looking for information on poker betting structures, please check out the information on offer below.

Poker Betting Structures

A term that usually refers to the money or betting aspect of poker play is the game's limit. High-limit games are ones that involve a lot of money. Low-limit games are the opposite.

With regard to poker betting amounts, it can be as follows:

Structured Limit
This means that the amount that can be bet is set. These games will be called things like $1/$2 or $20/$40 games. In Hold 'Em, the amount that can be bet pre-flop or on the flop is the first number. In a $5/$10 game, you'll be betting $5 at a time. On the turn and river, the amount doubles. In that same $5/$10 game, players bet $10 at a time after the turn card is dealt. There is a limit of four bets per player per betting round. That means a player can bet, get re-raised, re-raise again, and be re-raised. You may encounter a structured game with three betting amounts, like $5/$10/$20. This is the same as before except on the river. On that round of betting, players can bet either of the two final amounts. In the case of a $5/$10/$20 game, that means a player can bet $10 or $20 on the river.

Spread Limit
This is where players can bet within a certain range of amounts. In a $1-$5 game, a player can bet between $1 and $5 during any betting round. If there are four amounts, like $1-$5-$10-$10, that means you can bet between $1 and $5 pre-flop and on the flop. On the turn it goes up to the 3rd number (between $1 and $10), and on the river it goes up to the last number (between $1 and $10). If there are three amounts, like $1-$5-$10, that means that you can bet from $1 to $5 during any betting round, but on the river you can bet between $1 and $10. This would be the same as a $1-$5-$5-$10 game.

Pot Limit
This is where a player can bet any amount between the cost of the big blind and the size of the pot on any betting round.

No Limit
This is where you can bet any amount between the cost of the big blind and the amount of money you have at the table on any betting round.