No Limit Home Games

Hi,

For some time now, I’ve been holding no limit home games. One thing I’ve noticed is that in most of the games, dispute and some sort of chaos and argument were always there.

Well, we have a certain system of raising blinds every 15 minutes to basically keep the game time to around 1 - 1.5 Hours; by which we are totally sure to be ideal. However, it’s not the same thing when it comes to raising and betting amounts.

At some point, we have assumed the following:

1. In every round of betting, the minimum bet will always be the size of the big blind.
2. The minimum bet is set at this larger amount and is incremental whenever someone bets bigger than the big blind.
3. Do you think we have made the right assumptions or rules?

Please, any comment or advice will do.

Thank you so much.

Jarvis

Jarvis,

1. The minimum bet on each street is indeed the size of the big blind.
   
2. An initial bet by a player may be made either the size of the minimum bet or up to their entire stack. After a player raises, the next player to raise in that round of betting must raise the amount of the prior raise. For instance, if the minimum bet is 200 and you bet out 350, then the raise must be at least 350.
   
3. Based on my understanding of your question, you are following proper procedure for NL games.

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