In Texas Hold ‘em the blinds are a key area that kick off one of the pressures in the game that establishes the foundations for strategy.
So What does that mean???
Simply put, the minimum bet often is increased throughout the game to push the game along and bring things to a conclusion, otherwise you could find yourself in a never ending game where people sit down at a table with a thousand dollars and only bet when the big and small blinds come there way. If the Big blind is a dollar that means they could see the Big blind a thousand times and with 8 people that could be 8,000 hands.
That’s way too long, so many games have a mechanism to increase the blinds at certain intervals.
As an example a blind may increase after every 20 hands, which would be two and a half trips around the table with 8 people playing. Usually Blinds increase by double their amount.
So if the blinds start off at $1 and fifty cents, they will increase to $2 and $1 for the Big and small blinds respectively. Then double again to $4 and $2, $8 and $4, $15 and $8 . . . You get the idea.
So the starting point of the blinds is important to understand.
Cash Flow Management
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