Limits for Beginners

Let's talk for a minute about how much you can bet. "Ring" games, a fancy term for a normal poker game (as opposed to a tournament), come in three basic flavors: structured limit, no-limit, and pot-limit. If you're new to the game, you're going to want to stick to a structured limit game, that is, one where the size of the bet is fixed on each street. For example, in a "$5/10" hold'em game, the bets (or raises) are made in increments of $5 before and just after the flop-the small bet-but increase to units of $10 on the turn and the river-the big bet.