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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny
I see this all the time, dealers and players who think the string bet rule is a referendum on how smoothly someone can cut chips, and every little bobble needs to be nitted.
As a dealer, this is how I typically rule on string bets:
Did the player reach forward with chips, drop them, and then return to his stack for more chips, all without verbalizing an amount ahead of time? String bet.
Did the player grab chips, accidentally get clumsy and drop one or more of them as he was crossing the line, then regather himself and complete his bet? Not a string bet.
Did the player awkwardly cut out chips with unnecessary pauses? Not a string bet, as long as he wasn't obviously pausing to try to get reads on players and as long as his pauses didn't obviously affect the action behind him.
In the last few years, I've probably called a string bet at most once or twice because a player was acting in a way that at all resembled the OP in this thread.