{"id":40544,"date":"2024-09-13T09:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T14:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=40544"},"modified":"2024-09-11T04:11:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T09:11:32","slug":"whats-the-point-of-blinds-in-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/whats-the-point-of-blinds-in-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"What is The Point of Poker Blinds?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Have you ever wondered what the blinds are in casino<\/a> poker? Why doesn\u2019t everyone just play poker for free, and join or leave as they please? In this article, we’ll break down <\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u2018blinds\u2019 are so called because players have to pay them before they see their cards. They are not optional if you want to join a poker game, and not to be confused with antes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Antes are also a compulsory bet paid by players before their cards are dealt in a tournament, but an ante is usually taken from everyone in every hand. A blind is positional, taken from specific players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For reference, we should state the purpose of the dealer button, which dictates the position of the blinds in a community card game like Texas Hold\u2019em<\/a> and Omaha<\/a>. The dealer button represents the player who, in the \u201cgood old days,\u201d used to actually distribute the cards to the other players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The dealer button is allocated at the start of each hand, and initially two forced blinds are collected:<\/p>\n\n\n\n As their name suggests, the big blind is more expensive than the small blind \u2014 usually double. In ring games the blinds are constant, but in tournaments they increase at a predetermined rate. Poker tournament<\/a> blind levels are usually scheduled for a set period of time, but may be for a number of hands.<\/p>\n\n\nWhat Are Blinds In Poker?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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