Hey guys,
i got a short question.
i have been playing live poker at a small pokeclub, playing with TDA Rules.
i stood up for several hands cause i sit all day and wanted to strech a little. Lets say 10 Hands.
The Dealer said, that i must sit down, it wouldnt be allowed to stand... Everybody at the table was on the Dealers side.
Am i Wrong? is there a rule that forbids to stand at the Poker table?
Right or Wrong?

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You want to stand while you are in the middle of playing a hand? I think you are supposed to stay in your seat while you have an active hand, although certainly players stand sometimes and I have never seen their hand killed as long as they stay near their seat. But standing while you are playing is kind of distracting to others...why not just stretch during a couple hands you are not involved in?

You should stay in your seat, sitting close to the table, with the chair facing forwards. You're folding most of your hands anyway, so get up and stretch during the long blocks of time you're not involved in a pot.

A reason for this is that allowing players to move around the table makes it too easy for them to get a peek at the cards of others. Yes, players should be more careful, but they're not, and they have an expectation of a reasonable amount of privacy in their personal "zones". Leaning back or sitting too low is also a violation of this. Even if you insist you can't see anything and that you deliberately look away, that doesn't matter. We're after the appearance of impropriety, after all.

Another reason is that it slows down the game. People who do this insist that it doesn't. Those people are mistaken.