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I understand soom rooms have a line just in front of the players and any chip that crosses the line has to stay.

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Nobody believes me when I say this, but those lines cause more arguments than they settle.

They seem to encourage idiots to see how close they can bring a chip to the line when they want to check. Another idiot will then insist that the chip touched the line, and he wants to force the first idiot to bet. The dealer is now asked whether or not the chip touched the line, which is akin to asking a tennis line-judge to make a call, except the line judge is in perfect position to make the call, and he can focus on the ball and the line. OTOH, the dealer is almost never in a good position to act as a line judge, and his eyes weren't focused on the spot in question, because he had no idea he would be asked to make this call.

My .02 on the betting line, though I like the "ergonomical" aspect.

About every fifth hand, the game stops so the idiots can argue about the line.