More forced bets in poker I
While ante and blind wagers are the main types of forced bets that are common in poker games, there are some other forced bets too such as bring-in. this kind of bet takes place after the cards are received by all the players but before any other part of the game begins. Generally, bring-in means that bet that a player is forced to wager after being chosen to do so by calculating the value of his face up cards after the opening dealing. The bet size is not much and once he has put in the bring-in his opponents carry on with the game in the stipulated policy of acting by turn. The arbitrariness of this kind of bet means that this is used in those games which have an ante wager, rather than the blind bet games.
In stud poker games, the player whose face up cards add up to the lowest value is the one who has to pay the bring-in. This situation is not followed in low hand stud poker games where the person with the highest value of face up cards must pay the bring-in.
In almost all fixed limit and in some spread limit poker games, the size of the bring-in is always lower than the minimum bet. In case the player who has to pay the bring-in pay only the stipulated amount, the function of this forced bet becomes the same as a small blind; however, he may also opt to pay a normal bet amount. The players who are seated after the one who has paid the bring-in can either call it, although the amount of bring-in is lower than normal bet size, or they may choose to raise it to minimum bet value, in which case it is said that the bet has been completed. If in a poker game, bring-in and fixed bet have equal value, the game usually gives the player who paid-bring-in the option to raise right away or in the first betting round, provided his opponents have not raised but only called.
