The Right and Wrong Ways to Play a “Splash Pot” Promotion

Today I’m continuing my occasional series of columns on strategies for playing poker under various casino promotions. Let’s talk about “splash pots.”

As with most poker room promotions, there’s a lot of variability in the details of how splash pots run. But generally, at either arbitrary or predefined times, the poker room supervisor will select a table at random. Before the next hand begins, he puts some amount of money in the middle of the table, which will be awarded to the winner of the hand.

This kind of promotion will only be found in poker rooms that cater primarily to tourists playing low stakes. In Las Vegas, you might find it at the Flamingo, but not across the intersection at the…