Re: Cash from pocket as a raise?
Big-bet poker (no-limit and pot limit) MUST be table stakes. Any other way is just completely unfair. If you have money that you want to wager with, then that money must be available for other people to see and attack (or avoid) should they choose to do so.
Picture the following scenario.
- Player A has only six dollars in chips remaining, but has $100 in his pocket.
- Player B has forty dollars in chips remaining and nothing in his pocket and is in the big blind.
- Player A doubles the blind and everybody folds to player B, who sees player A only has a couple bucks left so he knows his exposure is limited. He has no way of knowing how much cash B has hidden away, and if he asks, that gives a lot of information to B.
- Player A and B both get a piece of the flop, so A bets out. Suddenly B draws a Benjamin out of his pocket and slams it on the table. A would never have played the hand if he had realized that money was in play.
Now, of course it was heads-up and your opponent could have refused to honor the cash portion of your bet. At this point you're just getting into generally skeezy territory where someone might, on the spur of the moment, pull out more money than they can really afford to risk and put it on the table.
In limit poker, at least, someone could be allowed to call (not raise) out of their pocket, simply because their potential exposure is limited. But for NL and PL, it's just a bad bad bad idea in my opinion.
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