Dead Money

[Jason]

How does dead money affect your decision making in NLHE? I hear advanced players talk about it from time to time.

[celtic123]

H Im not an advanced player Jason. if you mean dead money as in bet money built up in the pot.

You can use that money to calculate pot odds . As an example Say there was $100 in the pot and it costs you $10 to stay in the hand. you could say , you are getting pot odds of 10/1.

hope this answers your question Jason.

[Ragnar4]

There are multiple definitions for "dead money"

The most important definition for "dead money" is the money in a pot from a player who has relinquished interest in that pot. So if you committed 100 dollars to a 300 dollar pot, and realize, oh snap, I'm beat, and then fold. Your money is "dead money"

If there are multiple interests in the pot pre flop and on the flop, and it's heads up, you realize the pot can be quite big, and that there is a very large amount of "dead money" in the pot percentage wise, but that also changes the strength of the hand that you're playing against. Be very wary of draws that came on on the turn or the river.

There's also dead money that doesn't happen a lot, but does happen in the case that sometimes, someone will walk bye, toss a $100 chip in your pot and say "play for it boys" that is true dead money.

The blinds are often dead money, but in microlimit games, the rake tends to be about the same size (or more) than the blinds, so instead you should discount them until you get to a substantial blindsize.