Newbie Question

Clareman

Hi All,

Apologies in advance for a dumb question that I'm sure everyone who plays poker should no the answer to, but what is running ante? at the moment in the IO the blinds are 30k/60k with a running ante of 5k.

White Knight

An ante is a forced bet in which each player places an equal amount of money or chips into the pot before the deal begins

Clareman

I know what an ante is, it's the running ante that's confusing me, surely everyone doesn't have to put into the pot, do they? I thought that was the whole idea behind blinds.

White Knight

you are confusing blinds and antes.

Running ante is where ALL players put in the same amount before the deal.

The blinds are then posted as normal

delanec8

Clareman wrote:

I know what an ante is, it's the running ante that's confusing me, surely everyone doesn't have to put into the pot, do they? I thought that was the whole idea behind blinds.

Yep, all the players put in 5K and then the blinds are posted aswell.

Clareman

thanks all, just never came across ante's in holdem before, I'm generally an on-line or small tourney player

jacQues

Clareman wrote:

what is running ante?

Blinds are blind bets, e.g. bets that are placed before cards are dealt. Antes are chips going directly into the pot before cards are dealt, thus unlike blinds antes are not part of any betting. There are more chips in the pot this way without increasing the minimum bet (which is the big blind). Its done to make people play hands instead of sit and wait for big hands.

"Ante" is short for "running ante". Technically "ante" is for one person, for example in a dealer's choice cash game where the dealer pays an ante to choose his/her game. And "running ante" is where all players put in an ante, for example in seven card stud. However, saying "ante" is common for both situations, since when paying Texas hold'em the only possible ante would be a running ante.

jacQues

Clareman

jacQues wrote:

Blinds are blind bets, e.g. bets that are placed before cards are dealt. Antes are chips going directly into the pot before cards are dealt, thus unlike blinds antes are not part of any betting. There are more chips in the pot this way without increasing the minimum bet (which is the big blind). Its done to make people play hands instead of sit and wait for big hands.

"Ante" is short for "running ante". Technically "ante" is for one person, for example in a dealer's choice cash game where the dealer pays an ante to choose his/her game. And "running ante" is where all players put in an ante, for example in seven card stud. However, saying "ante" is common for both situations, since when paying Texas hold'em the only possible ante would be a running ante.

jacQues

Thans JacQues