Cash Game Cap in Pot-Limit Games? (6 Viewers)

[Labrat]

It’s pertinent bc you must have already put chips in the pot. Say 20bb, so ur only allowed to put 80bb more in. It’s capped per player. Not capped pot. Not capped by street. Capped by per player following PLO betting structure.

Oh WAIT.

NOW I get it. The entire hand I can only put in 100bb.

/facepalm

 

[doublebooyah85]

Oh WAIT.

NOW I get it. The entire hand I can only put in 100bb.

/facepalm

DOUBLE BOOYAH

 

[Labrat]

Well why didn't you say that in the first place?

 

[doublebooyah85]

I’ve been in Montana where bar games the “pot is capped.” That’s supper annoying. And I’m guessing you were getting that confused as well as by the street.

 

[Labrat]

I’ve been in Montana where bar games the “pot is capped.” That’s supper annoying. And I’m guessing you were getting that confused as well as by the street.

Correct.

 

[doublebooyah85]

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[doublebooyah85]

Well why didn't you say that in the first place?

I did in my first post

I’ve played capped pots in PLO when it’s a bomb pot or a mixed game limit game.

Example, bomb we play $1-$2 PLO. But the most a player can get in is $500. As you play the hand, you just always keep your money/chips in front of you that way the Dealer and everyone knows when you get to the $500. Never push all the chips in the middle.

I’ve also played mixed limit games where it’s round by round different limit games but one of the games is PLO again with a fixed max all-in. That was a $20-$40 limit game and the max you could lose was like $2k in PLO but I really can’t remember.

 

[Santa123]

@inca911 @doublebooyah85
As from you already mentioned:
Keeping track of the amount of chips players already put in on the current and pervious streets (by not pushing the chips into the pot but leaving them in front of the player) sounds doable but still kind of a big change.

My initial idea was to cap per street what each player can bet and or raise (in total) per street.
This cap would be fairly easy to introduce in contrast to your methods.
How ever do you think a cap per player per street would be good or stupid idea from your perspective and experience?

Repost:
Example - Pot-Limit / 10c/10c blinds / cap is 10€ (player and street)
Lets say you have two players at the turn.
Pot is 4€.
Player A bets pot 4€.
Player B has now the option to fold, call, min-raise to 8€ or raise up to 10€.
Lets say player B raises to 10€.
Player A now has the option to fold or to call but not to raise as the cap is already reached.

Further on:
Lets say Player A calls.
Pot is 24€.
Player A has the optiomn to check or to bet. But his bet is again capped to 10€ as previously.

 

[upNdown]

Just to share my thoughts on the original question, I don't have experience with caps in that situation, but I understand why you'd ask. I does always feel like a scary, delicate balance when you're playing mix of fixed limit games and uncapped big bet games. Personally, I'd rather tweek the stakes of the games (to get them to play for as similar actual $$ amounts as possible) than institute caps. But I'm not opposed to caps. Just realize that caps change the game and should change your gameplay. In the same way you wouldn't play FLHE the same way as you'd play NLHE, you'd want to adapt your play and your strategies to best fit the capped game.

 

[doublebooyah85]

Poker rooms have been around for decades. 80% is no limit. 15% is limit. 4% is spread. 1% will have these “capped” games.

All for a multiple of reasons.

I would stick with NL and Fixed Limit for simplicity and ease.

If your concern is to protect your player from losing too much money, just reduce the amount people can buy in for.

Maybe try spread, but it has its own flaws, and think it’s not a good option, hence no one really plays it. Just go with limit.

 

[allforcharity]

I suppose it would more difficult to push others off pots with a per street cap, since it encourages calling on all streets. Better to play Limit.

 

[inca911]

The $200 per pot cap allows players to run some later bluffs, whereas in simple limit a call is nearly automatic. It’s a lot of fun figuring if you should call an $80 pot-sized River bet vs. an $8 regular limit bet.

 

[Santa123]

The $200 per pot cap allows players to run some later bluffs, whereas in simple limit a call is nearly automatic. It’s a lot of fun figuring if you should call an $80 pot-sized River bet vs. an $8 regular limit bet.

I realized that in a homegame you could cut out the cap (40BB or 100BB doesnt matter, what ever the cap is) in chips before the first betting round and seperate them from you main stack. This would allow to make it even more easy to calculate how much is left to bet.

For example in a $1/1 game with a cap of $100 you could seperate 10x $1 and 18x $5 from you stack. Just a thought.