LOL-worthy span of posts!
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Originally Posted by FeltLegend
"5000 is the total bet sir." "So, how much more do I owe?" <<< Jesus , 5000 total
OMFG yes! "Just make your bet look like his. Match the chip colors and quantities."
A surprising number of people are afraid to bring back bets they've put to the middle. In a casino I can sort of understand a new-ish player not wanting to touch what he see's as the "house's" chips after he makes a bet, but this is incredibly common at home games, with people who have been playing quite a long time!
This is more a home game thing, but in a cash game, the guy who stops action in order to break a chip for blinds or calling an odd-sized bet... then the bet is raised to an even number... and he uses the rest of his change to bring the bet up to that number (ie, breaks a $5 to use in his call $8, then uses the rest of his whites to call $35 in the very same betting round... LET'S STOP AND THINK WHY YOU ALWAYS NEED CHANGE!)
And how about the guy who absolutely NEEDS change for his T100 so he can post his T75 ante.
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Originally Posted by Ship It Or Bust
Player B is thinking about what to do, and all of a sudden, someone else at the table (usually someone who isn't even in the hand) will say out loud that "It looks like Player A has about $2,000."
This bugs me, too, but on the teevee, dealers ALWAYS announce the bet or the "raise more" number, without being prompted. The pros haven't stopped this practice, so maybe it's okay. I was raised not to do this, so it makes me twitchy.
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Originally Posted by MrFnClean
uy in seat 2 was flipping it in the air, while on a phone call away from the table. I yelled loudly in his direction to give me the button, to which he replied, 'Just deal me out'.
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Ha! And double ha!
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Originally Posted by NYCNative
I always try and pull in the calls when I can. I even do this when the Big Blind has the option to raise. I find the game moves a lot faster that way and eveyone knows exactly how much they owe.
Also, there's psychology involved: Tell someone he owes $15 total and maybe that sounds like a lot to him; tell him he owes $11 more on top of his $4 straddle, and it sounds less and maybe he is a little more likely to make the call. It also reminds them very subtly that they already have money in the pot.
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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny
Preflop, I don't announce, "Raise." Instead, I announce, "First raise, make it $X." Hey, I'm an optimist.
If they're all limping in, it sounds like this: "Two to play....only two....just two...merely two...a meager two..." Before you know it, you've got 8-way action!
Yeah, see, these are the kinds of things I was told not to do, for exactly these reasons. We're not supposed to encourage action, I didn't think. But I appear to be in the minority.
I was shocked when I got to Vegas and saw that it's completely standard to bring in the call amount when the last person to act raises. Don't get me wrong... I LOVE watching pots grow. I had just thought this was verboten.