Hey, if I bet 2000 it results in a completely different game tree.

Word. The most annoying one I've heard recently is someone insisting on calling 3 of a kind made with a pocket pair a "set", and 3 of a kind with two on the board "trips". And also this guy went out of his way to correct me for calling my hand trips with a pocket pair at showdown.

He's right, fyi.

Even in cash games. There's a guy at my local who always plays Friday night that does this ****. Someone opens for $10, he raises to $39.

He also loves playing with little chips. He'll be sitting there with a stack of reds and cut that $39 out in 3 reds and 24 whites. Except of course his whites are in stacks of 17 for some reason so it takes him about 4 years...

people are funny. what the hell does it matter how you have three of the same card (terminology speaking, not strat). I'll sometimes say something along the lines of "I have pocket J's (as in Jays)" just to switch it up a little. the best (not really) is when I order dew from a mountain from the waitress.. that's a real knee slapper.

Well the word has precise meaning and if you use it incorrectly you confuse people who understand the precise meaning. If the board is paired and you tell me you have a set you confuse me because that's impossible. You might have a boat or quads but you can't have a set. In poker it only causes a second of delay when I have to process that "oh he's calling trips a set and so my flush is good".

In my day job as a programmer it's more dangerous. If people use words that have very specific meaning they might get what they ask for and not what they mean.

BTW a lot of poker lingo changes over time and I don't think that the set vs trips distinction has always meant what it does now. And I've always heard it that 3 of a kind is always trips whether you have a pocket pair or not but a set is always a pocket pair.

While a set and trips are most definitely different from a strategic point of view, I would never correct someone at the table.

Nor would I. But if the board is paired and you say you have a set I'm not slowrolling when I take an extra second to turn over my flush.

Absolutely.

As far as I can tell, trips and set used to be synonymous. Someone who refers to any three of a kind as a set is usually someone who played a lot of poker before the online era.

The distinction matters in technical discussion, e.g. dissecting hand histories on 2+2. It's not something to correct people at the table about though.

Manchester Poker Room, Manchester, NH, possibly the other rooms in NH too. 1/2 they limit you to $300 buy-in. Sounds like a valid and smart play. I wonder if they would quash it. I'm not saying it makes sense, I just know what happened.

Not sure, but I saw a guy pay a $60 bar + meal tab out of his stack. I don't see why not.

Even when I played at Foxwoods, I tried to buy-in over $300 and they wouldn't let me - they would give me the chips but said I had to put them in my pocket and could top off my stack to $300. Is this a New England thing, I need to specifically mention 'table stakes', or something I'm missing?

Every place I've played at allows players to pay for things available at the poker table from their stack. What you can't do it take chips off to the gift shop, for example.

Why should they let you?

Table stakes?

What is your definition of table stakes?

Is it correct that at some tables you can buy in for up to the largest stack on the table?

It is correct that in some poker rooms you can buy in for up to the largest stack at the table. It is not correct that is referred to as "table stakes". Table stakes means that you can only wager the money that you have on the table and can't add to your stack in the middle of a hand.

Thanks for the clarification. Is there a term for buying in for the largest stack at the table?

Not that I know of. It's just buying in for the max where the table maximum can be as big as the largest stack at the table. The maximum varies from place to place. It is common to see 100BB as the max at the smallest NL games. Some places will have 100BB for the max at a 1/2 or 1/3 game, 200-300BB at a 2/5 game, and uncapped if they have anything bigger. They might allow you to also match the biggest stack, or sometimes half the biggest stack, if it exceeds those limits at levels with a cap.

In an unfamiliar poker room, I will ask what the minimum and maximum buy-in is when I check in at the desk, since most places that I have played prefer that you buy your chips before sitting down, or at least the first buy-in.

Mohegan Sun has had 2 different 2-5 games: one with a $500 max and one "Table Limit" game where you can buy in up to the biggest stack.

I just hear it mentioned as a percentage of the big stack.


"300 max or 75% of the big stack" for a local room.


I don't know if there is a particular term for it.

This would also mean players can pass chips between eachother so couples could swap chips. If i prefer to play short stack and my buddy has the table covered i could in theory give him my excess, "locking them up, taking them out of play" as he has the table covered.

my buddy and i each sit at a new table we each buy in for 300, i pass him my 300, rebuy 300, pass him my 300, i rebuy 60, so he has 900 and whole table covered effectively he his only playing 300 cos that is next largest stack and i short stack.... I dble up to 120 just ship him the 60 to lock it up and go on short stacking. Basically they allow ratholing and some forms of collusion.