Your call?
Hi, just some background info for this controversy. I'm in a college dorm, and we've been playing for about a year and a half. Nothing ever in dispute really happened, and I'm recogized as the best player, so usually I call most rules. This time it involved me, so didn't make the decision. I'm the classic LAG player, raising or calling raises 6/10 hands preflop, and as a result, busting many aces and kings with 26's and such. That day, indeed I had busted a couple kings and queens with a few flopped two pairs or trips with 68 and the such, annoying a bunch of people. We're all great friends outside of poker and even inside poker it's a really friendly atmospher, but onto the story.
Now the most important part is the way I bet. I grab a stack of chips, and release two chips at a time horizontally across the "pot area". For example, I'd usually grab about 12 $1 chips, and lay down 2 stacks of $2 each for 4 dollars total all while my arm hasn't left the pot, but not really in one motion. Kind of like when pros play with their chips before putting in the pot.
Now this time i pick up QQ UTG+2 and raise it up and amazingly get 6 callers. The pot is huge, and UTG bets something like 3 dollars into a QJ9 two suited flop. I immediately say "I'll make it...", (which is usually what I say, we never say raise) and I grab a stack of chips and already am in the process of making piles of 2 chips each as usual, when I realize the pot is already 25 dollars and I have max 12 bucks in my hands with 6 callers. So i placed 5 piles of $2 each, and announce 18 before my arms leave the pot area and I go back to get more. One of my friends says I can't do that and it's string betting. I said my arms were still in the pot when I said it, and this is a homegame and it might even be true in the casino that its a legal move. He said no I cant do that because its string betting. I said I announced 18 even before the last pile of chips was placed in the betting. He said no, and I said ok lets post this on twoplustwo and find what the forums say for $50 bucks. I mainly said it because I knew this pot was going to be at least 50 bucks, and if I really only raised it to 10, I'd prob get a bunch of callers and lose the pot even with top set. He agreed so now here we are...
Would you accept this action, especially if you were in a home game, and secondly what would the casino ruling be?
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