What is a kill pot? What is a game with a kill?
half kill? Author: Stephen Landrum Last updated: 1998 Copyright * 2004 Stephen Landrum The official and up-to-date version of this answer is here [101]. Big bet (no-limit or pot-limit) poker frequently allows a player to “kill the pot”, by posting an amount equal to current to-go amount, and the amount to-go (to come into the hand, or call preflop) is now double the kill amount. In no-limit games, players are frequently allowed to kill for more than the to-go amount, but for no more than 1/2 of their stack. Some games allow overkills – after someone has killed the pot, someone else can kill it again, raising the amount to-go to double the new kill amount. There may be a limit to the number of kills allowed on a hand, even though the game is “no-limit”. Killing the pot alters the order of action preflop/predraw. The killers act after the blinds in the order in which they killed the pot. After the flop or draw, action returns to its normal order. To kill the pot in Hold’em or other flop
