The largest pot ever won in online poker was between poker pro Patrick Antonius against Isildur1 (Online name). This pot was worth $878,958. Patrick and Isildur where playing Pot Limit Omaha Hi. This happened on Full Tilt on November 21, 2009.
The biggest online pot was just over 1.3 million.
Prize money if you are asking about a tournament, in regular play it is called the pot.
A pot starter in poker is either the ante or blinds.
The 'rake' is a small percentage of each pot that goes to the house (host casino). This is the way the house makes money on poker. As an example, say two players are in a pot. After several betting rounds the hand reaches the river and there is $500 in the pot. The first player shows the best hand and wins. Say the rake in this casino is 10%, that would mean the player gets $450 and the casino gets $50. Often there is no rake deducted from the pot when the hand doesn't reach the flop (the 'no flop, no drop' rule).
With a split pot it means there are two or more winners. All the money is in the pots, there are no leftovers. The pots go to the winning hands.
An amount of money to which people have contributed for a particular purpose. The word Kitty also applies, mainly in reference to money in the 'pot' during a card game, or a fund made up as a portion of each pot in a poker game
To win the pot. I must Disagree, If you picked 100 poker players at random and asked them about the objective of poker, most would say something about winning the pot, but they couldn't be further from the truth. The objective of poker - in addition to the enjoyment of playing the game -is winning money, not pots. If your objective of poker was to win the most pots, that would be easy to do. Just play every hand and every bet and raise until the bitter end. You'd win a lot of pots. In fact, you'd win every pot you possibly could. But you'd lose money. Plenty of it, and rapidly.
Poker pot equity refers to you being able to get enough from a pot given your hand prior to making a betting decision. So if you have a good poker hand, but the pot is small, you would be getting bad pot equity to make a large bet. ALternatively, if you have a good hand and the pot is big, you may want to bet into this pot as you will be getting good pot equity.
To ante up means to add money to the pot in poker, or to put money into the center of the table. If you ante up one dollar, you add one dollar to the table pot.
Of course you can. All the bets are pooled into one pot, whoever wins the pot takes all the money, unless it is a split pot. Any time you win the pot, you win more than you bet.
Poker mathematics mainly consist of 2 things : No. of Outs & Pot Odds.