[AngusThermopyle]

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It isn't allowed, and I don't see the connection to a string bet/raise. The reason you can't make a string bet is once you make a legal bet it isn't your turn anymore; the action is on the next player.

Note: This isn't meant as a technical answer, one of my pet peave is when a dealer tells a player "you can't raise, that is a string bet" if they had any idea what a string bet is they wouldn't have done it. It is much clearer if you explain it as "when you put the chips in to call you called and now it is the next player's turn, i fyou would like to raise tell the dealer before you put anything in or put it all out at once.

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1. Players who know what a string bet is still make them, for a range of reasons.

2. The connection between a string raise and exposing your hand is that both can be done for the purpose of getting a response from other players before making/completeing your action.

3. It does not seem to be a universal rule as to whether exposing your cards in a cash game is "illegal". And the threat of a "penalty" in a tournament relegates the move to the class of an F-bomb, and not an illegal play.

4. If a string raise is illegal for the reason you stated, why is the inforcement "optional"? "Optional" in the sense that (in many places) the dealer does not enforce the rule unless a player objects to the string raise (and, before there is action behind the raise). If the "call" part of the string raise ends the player's turn, why should I have to say anything to keep him from raising? Why can't I let everybody fold back to me and then force him to take the raise out? My understanding was that it was illegal/wrong because it could be used to judge the reactions of those yet to act and so either raise/call based on those reactions.