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02-25-2017 , 01:58 PM

mrno1324

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player takes all the raising chips in his hand but lays them out in front in stacks of two?

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02-25-2017 , 02:16 PM

dinesh

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Not generally, you can normally cut out chips while your hand remains in the betting area, and your bet is finalized when your hand returns to your area of exclusive control. But room rules vary.

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02-25-2017 , 03:21 PM

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When new players first encounter the sring bet rule people always tell them its so that a player can't start making a bet and look at his opponent to get a reaction and then decide how much to bet. This is not the real reason for the rule.

But since everyone is told this it becomes logical that a certain number of players will feel that the slightest pause would give a player the opportunity to see a reaction and therefore must be string bet ....

unfortunately sometimes people who feel this way get to make decisions in poker rooms so sometimes something like this which should never be considered a string bet may be a string bet.

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02-25-2017 , 06:44 PM

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unfortunately sometimes people who feel this way get to make decisions in poker rooms so sometimes something like this which should never be considered a string bet may be a string bet.

In my casino I've been string bet by a dealer when I bet 1 stack of about 15 chips with my hand partially covering it and he thought the bottom chip touched the felt about a microsecond before the rest of the chips when they were about a nanometer above the felt. He was vigilant about it too like I just raped his cat or something like that (He was a new dealer and I never met the guy, not sure about his cat though). Floor agreed with him.

Always make sure the staff isn't ******ed before you allow yourself the enjoyment of a stress free poker game.

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02-25-2017 , 06:49 PM

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And don't rape the dealer's cat... it pissed us off

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02-26-2017 , 11:59 AM

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If you announce "Raise , or I raise" then follow up with an amount , "50 on top" is it even possible to string bet/raise? I would think not. However I guess it doesn't look or sound cool to do that for some folks.

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02-26-2017 , 02:00 PM

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I would recommend not hesitating when cutting the stacks. I have been called on a string bet when I hesitated when laying out my two stacks of chips.

Personally I don't call string bets so I really don't care what my opponent is doing when laying out his bet. My only exception is when a player throws out a single chip and then when other people call, he says it was a raise...

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02-26-2017 , 08:23 PM

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It isn't just new players. I always thought that was the reason for the rule too. So what is the real reason?

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02-26-2017 , 09:10 PM

dinesh

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It is so that other players know when the bet is over and the next player can begin to take his turn.

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02-26-2017 , 09:21 PM

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That misconception is one of the worst things about modern live poker.

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02-26-2017 , 10:07 PM

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It isn't just new players. I always thought that was the reason for the rule too. So what is the real reason?

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It is so that other players know when the bet is over and the next player can begin to take his turn.

precisely.

If we were trying to prevent a player from getting 'a read' then we would need to make the bet comlplete much earlier... like when the player touched his stack.

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02-26-2017 , 11:08 PM

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And don't rape the dealer's cat... it pissed us off

Dealers are such etiquette nits about things like this.

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02-26-2017 , 11:48 PM

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It is so that other players know when the bet is over and the next player can begin to take his turn.

Which is why the earlier version of the rule that allowed multiple motions as long as they were strung together without pause was a better rule - though I suppose harder to define.

It's kind of funny that it's gotten around that the rule is to avoid "getting a read" when we allow about a million other things in order to "get a read" anyway.

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03-01-2017 , 12:16 AM

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The continuous motion rule is still on the books most places but most players, dealers and even floors think it is s string.

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03-01-2017 , 11:40 AM

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I agree 100%. Wish more people approached the game like this.

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