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Question 5: What is a "kill" in Holdem Poker and how does it work?

A: While you are playing holdem poker, often the players in online casinos call for a ‘kill’. This is the situation wherein the lucky Poker Player gets scooped with row or consecutive jackpots at the new level. In effect, the online casino levies tax over the player who has hit consecutive jackpots. These taxes mean that if you, as a player in online casino, have hit two jackpots in a row during Holdem games where the kill occurs when you win, you have a slightly smaller incentive to enter a poker hand right after you've won a nice jackpot. To show you how a kill might work, suppose you are playing 10-20 Holdem eight-or-better with a half kill. You scoop a pot that is large enough to qualify for kill status, and you are in middle position. The game becomes a 15-30 game for the next hand (and that hand only, unless you or someone else pulls in another big scooper), and the dealer would give you a special kill button, upon which you would post a $15 big blind, even though two other players in the pot also post their regularly scheduled blinds. Normally these "regularly scheduled" blinds are of the regular size (in this case $5 and $10), although I have heard of online casinos that also increase the regular blind size for such kind of poker hand.