Low Stakes Limit Hold Em (3 Viewers)

Also, how I would run rebuys....which goes doubly so for your case where you have a smaller number of workhorse chips....is rebuys go thru the big stacks then to the bank. So, if player A wants to buy $20 worth of chips, he would buy it directly from a stack with a bunch of workhorse chips. Then, you give him the big chips in exchange for the cash. You could also just let the cash stay on the table in play and save the need for big chips if it doesnt screw up the legality of your game.
 
I just hosted a $0.50-$1.00 limit hold'em game last night. We used all $0.25 chips. Everybody bought in for $25, which gets you a rack of chips. Using quarters, the betting structure is 2 chip - 4 chip. It worked out great.

Btw, I have a 1000 chip limit set. The chips are actually $5 used casino chips, but we can use them for what ever denomination we're playing. Since we know that all the chips are quarters, it doesn't matter what chip we use.
 
You can get by running limit without racks and racks of the main chip. It's just customary to use a single chip. Since my game is dealer's choice with both limit and PL/NL, I've just used 3 racks of .25 for 6-8 players and the rest in $1s. On the big bet rounds, everyone just throws in $1s instead of quarters.
Like I said, it's just customary to run limit with a single workhorse chip and a single "bank" chip. But as long as you have reasonable working amounts of chips that can be used for betting, anything will work.

Just give people 5s for rebuys and change them out from the table.

If fixed limit has one clear advantage over no-limit it is that it is a fundamentally faster game. Using all one denomination or two denominations with a wide gap is a part of that. Limiting denominations reduces change making and provides easy visual checks that the bets match. A rack per player is typical and nice, but I think 3 barrels per player with color up chips is okay if you want to do the minimum.

Another useful approach is to use two no-denomination chips for low and high values, which allows a single set to be used for a variety of games using different limit stakes.

No denomination chips? Blasphemy ;). But this is otherwise a workable option.
 
I just hosted a $0.50-$1.00 limit hold'em game last night. We used all $0.25 chips. Everybody bought in for $25, which gets you a rack of chips. Using quarters, the betting structure is 2 chip - 4 chip. It worked out great.

Btw, I have a 1000 chip limit set. The chips are actually $5 used casino chips, but we can use them for what ever denomination we're playing. Since we know that all the chips are quarters, it doesn't matter what chip we use.

"BJ's dice chip theory" LOL! A guy who hosts a game sporadically uses rainbow dice chips. The color of the chip doesn't matter cause all are worth 25c. We play 25c/50c NL and he swears by these. I offered to give him a set and he says denominated chips would just complicate things. I'll post a pic of my stack for the last time I played at his game.
 
If fixed limit has one clear advantage over no-limit it is that it is a fundamentally faster game. Using all one denomination or two denominations with a wide gap is a part of that. Limiting denominations reduces change making and provides easy visual checks that the bets match. A rack per player is typical and nice, but I think 3 barrels per player with color up chips is okay if you want to do the minimum.

No denomination chips? Blasphemy ;). But this is otherwise a workable option.
Excellent points here. I'm loving all the different perspectives.
 
I would cap every street in every hand I played at those stakes just to amuse myself. No fucking way I would take a game like that seriously enough to play right in order to win 50 cents/hr.
I would suggest that they invite you to leave and not come back.

Of course, you can't 'cap every street' if there is no one willing to re-raise you. I play 10/20 with a guy that like to employ that strategy and then complains that no one respects his bets. I tell him that is because they meaningless. In most cases, he wins the minimum and loses the maximum, merely dictated by how the cards fall.
 
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"BJ's dice chip theory" LOL! A guy who hosts a game sporadically uses rainbow dice chips. The color of the chip doesn't matter cause all are worth 25c. We play 25c/50c NL and he swears by these. I offered to give him a set and he says denominated chips would just complicate things. I'll post a pic of my stack for the last time I played at his game.
My set is all the same chip (not different colors or denominations). It's just that they all are $5 chips, but the "$5" doesn't mean anything to us as we're playing.
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I would cap every street in every hand I played at those stakes just to amuse myself. No fucking way I would take a game like that seriously enough to play right in order to win 50 cents/hr.
Takes more than just one willing player to cap the betting on a street, much less all streets. :D
 
I would suggest that they invite you to leave and not come back.

Why? Only players with perfectly predictable playing styles are welcome in your game?

Takes more than just one willing player to cap the betting on a street, much less all streets. :D

Only at first. Once they realize what you're doing, they tend to try to out maniac the maniac guy :)
 
Another useful approach is to use two no-denomination chips for low and high values, which allows a single set to be used for a variety of games using different limit stakes.

Similar to using non-denominated chips, another approach to limit (especially on the lower side) is to stick to $1 (workhorse) and $20/$25 (rebuy) chips, but adjust the buy-in ratio accordingly. So normally for say a $2 / $4 limit game, you'd buy in for ~$100 (rack of $1s). Slash that in half - say $50 in cash buys you $100 in chips, or quarter it - $25 buys you $100 in chips. Then you just do that in reverse at cash out.
 
Glad I found this thread. Keep trying to introduce limit to my players but one maniac keeps moaning about it as he can’t go “all in”.

Looks like the answer is to raise the blinds. £50 is the buy in amount I’m thinking of although some will buy in for £20 then rebuy another couple of times.

What blinds would you guys suggest for that? I was originally thinking 0.25 / 0.50 but on reading this it looks like 0.50 / £1 or even £1 / £2 might make a better game.

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Glad I found this thread. Keep trying to introduce limit to my players but one maniac keeps moaning about it as he can’t go “all in”.

Looks like the answer is to raise the blinds. £50 is the buy in amount I’m thinking of although some will buy in for £20 then rebuy another couple of times.

What blinds would you guys suggest for that? I was originally thinking 0.25 / 0.50 but on reading this it looks like 0.50 / £1 or even £1 / £2 might make a better game.

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When thinking about the buyin about, realize that 24x the big blind is generally the most anyone can wager in a single hand of limit betting in flop games.
 
Glad I found this thread. Keep trying to introduce limit to my players but one maniac keeps moaning about it as he can’t go “all in”.

Looks like the answer is to raise the blinds. £50 is the buy in amount I’m thinking of although some will buy in for £20 then rebuy another couple of times.

What blinds would you guys suggest for that? I was originally thinking 0.25 / 0.50 but on reading this it looks like 0.50 / £1 or even £1 / £2 might make a better game.

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Tell him he can still go “all-in” just keep his stack low lol.
 
When thinking about the buyin about, realize that 24x the big blind is generally the most anyone can wager in a single hand of limit betting in flop games.
Ok thanks for that. Looks like blinds of 0.25 / 0.50 and big bet of £1 is the way to go. If it’s still a bit loose I’ll put it up to 0.50 / £1 blinds.
 
Glad I found this thread. Keep trying to introduce limit to my players but one maniac keeps moaning about it as he can’t go “all in”.
It's just a different game, but it's a big mental adjustment to the guy who's never played anything but NLHE. And I think the easiest solution to this is to not play hold'em at all. Play stud and omaha varients - keep them thinking.
 
It's just a different game, but it's a big mental adjustment to the guy who's never played anything but NLHE. And I think the easiest solution to this is to not play hold'em at all. Play stud and omaha varients - keep them thinking.
Good shout. I’ll try that and see how it goes.
 
Does anybody play 0.25/0.50 limit? Asking for a friend.
We run combo 5c/10c NL/PL and 25c/50c Limit dealer choice cash games occasionally with $20 buy-ins.

I had the same game with my family until I changed to my custom chips which feature dime-half-dollar chips. So we play 0.10-0.10 NL with 0.20/0.40 limit mixed in.

Works out pretty well.
 
I’m considering offering my players an option for low stakes limit hold em. What’s the lowest stakes you guys ever played? I’m thinking a limit game of like $1/$2. Could you really go any lower? Does anyone have low stakes experience? What’s the limit and blinds?
I've played as low as $0.10/$0.20 FLHE with 5 and 10 cent blinds.
 
"BJ's dice chip theory" LOL! A guy who hosts a game sporadically uses rainbow dice chips. The color of the chip doesn't matter cause all are worth 25c. We play 25c/50c NL and he swears by these. I offered to give him a set and he says denominated chips would just complicate things. I'll post a pic of my stack for the last time I played at his game.
So this is a month and a week late, but this is what BJ's dice chip home game looks like. :mad: :mad: :(
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I've a lot of friends that either want to learn how to play hold 'em, a variety of mixed games or just don't want to lose any money. I was trying to push tournaments
to them so there would be a fixed amount lost - even as low as $10, but they feel it's just throwing money away since they are behind on knowledge. (I try to explain that there's always a knowledge gap between players.)

I considered maybe playing NL with a cap, but I think it would just get capped all of the time, so I'm going to try to run a series of limit games. It'll let the players "figure" things out through experience (though I bet there will be lots of multi-way pots and insane draws being chased at first).

Another useful approach is to use two no-denomination chips for low and high values, which allows a single set to be used for a variety of games using different limit stakes.
100%. I'm picking up a large two different chip non-denominational limit set, so we can play and have different stakes for different crowds. With the possibility to move up in stakes gradually.

The color of the chip doesn't matter cause all are worth 25c. We play 25c/50c NL and he swears by these. I offered to give him a set and he says denominated chips would just complicate things.

I have a friend who likes this setup too (also with dice chips). He says "It's simpler when everything is a quarter." But then someone wins a $20-40 pot and they are stacking for multiple hands...
 
I've a lot of friends that either want to learn how to play hold 'em, a variety of mixed games or just don't want to lose any money. I was trying to push tournaments
to them so there would be a fixed amount lost - even as low as $10, but they feel it's just throwing money away since they are behind on knowledge. (I try to explain that there's always a knowledge gap between players.)

I considered maybe playing NL with a cap, but I think it would just get capped all of the time, so I'm going to try to run a series of limit games. It'll let the players "figure" things out through experience (though I bet there will be lots of multi-way pots and insane draws being chased at first).


100%. I'm picking up a large two different chip non-denominational limit set, so we can play and have different stakes for different crowds. With the possibility to move up in stakes gradually.



I have a friend who likes this setup too (also with dice chips). He says "It's simpler when everything is a quarter." But then someone wins a $20-40 pot and they are stacking for multiple hands...
EXACTLY!

Then to top is off, a lot of the chips aren't the same material so we have to filter through the chips to make sure the ones we play with are all the same material, otherwise we will have stacking issues LOL
 

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