declaring all-in in a limit game

I have to say that I have been playing at pechanga exlusively since they did the new room, however not wanting to make the drive went there. The new poker room is nice, not quite as open as pechanga and not as many tables either. However the tables are very nice/new, chips seem new as well, some of the tables have shufflers some dont. Got there and there was a huge list for both 2/4 3/6 so we got on each list and in about 15-20 minutes we sat down. Dealers seem pretty competient, they can figure out multiple side pots fast, and seem to do a great job directing the action.

Play seemed normal fishy 3/6, other than the mistake I made on this hand, it seemed that if you played your solid holdem you could run the table, saw a lot of raises that would fold on the turn or river to a reraise.

Anyway I think this is my new place to play.

[steamboatin]

I am beginning to detect a pattern in your replys. Are you hinting that the OP is a fetus or are you a fetus that is looking for a place that is easy to sneak in to?

[Rick Nebiolo]

A couple of years ago girlfriend is playing 15/30 and on the river is head up with this guy and it goes bet-raise-reraise-reraise-reraise and now the guy pushes about three stacks ($300 or so) into the pot and she says call and pushes her chips in. Normally there is no problem and the action stands since most people are a little bit honorable but now the guy realizes he is up against the nuts (stakes were around 15/30) and he pulls the big stacks back and says "just kidding". Floorman comes over and says he can't enforce an invalid raise so the guy gets to keep his money except for the last reraise.

Today a shift manager from another card club said he would rule the action stands but acknowledged he wouldn't be on firm ground after I told him about what happened to girlfriend at the other club.

This hits home because a couple of days ago I'm playing NL with this same guy who ripped off my girlfriend and after a few limpers BTF I put in a big raise and most fold but now one player is thinking about calling and this same POS who's not even in the hand tells the guy he "shouldn't call me I have a huge pair blah blah blah". After the guy folds I lay into the POS saying "You should keep your mouth shut when you're not in the hand and BTW I'll never forgive you for what you did to my girlfriend two years ago" and the table gets silent since usually I don't get into arguments and they may be thinking its some jealousy/sexual type thing but now I quickly tell the table the story above and say only someone dishonorable would do such a thing and the guy shuts up for twenty minutes which is good for him and for us since we had twenty minutes of him keeping his mouth shut which is the next best thing to heaven.

~ Rick

[mosch]

If you're only going 5 more bets, it's easier to just play them out. If you and your opponent are both very deep, then after six or seven bets I'd ask my opponent if they want to re-raise until all-in, and if they say yes, ask the dealer if that would be binding.

If the dealer says yes, I sincerely doubt any problems would follow.

If the dealer says no, the players can just sit there and say raise for the next two minutes.

I've won (and lost) some comically large pots this way.

[MicroBob]

wow. this is a pretty bad play.

did you just think he had a T?

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wow. this is a pretty bad play.

did you just think he had a T?

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The question wasnt regarding the play people, it was regarding the situation, I just won 1400 on a bad beat I didnt really care at this point GET OVER IT!!!

[Matt Williams]

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wow. this is a pretty bad play.

did you just think he had a T?

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The question wasnt regarding the play people, it was regarding the situation, I just won 1400 on a bad beat I didnt really care at this point GET OVER IT!!!

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I like how you feel the need to mention you won 1400 as if that excuses you from your poor play. BTW, how did you win 1400 when you said you were sitting at a 3/6 table w/ 120 in front of you?

[Geoff48]

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I like how you feel the need to mention you won 1400 as if that excuses you from your poor play. BTW, how did you win 1400 when you said you were sitting at a 3/6 table w/ 120 in front of you?

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Bad beat jackpot probably.

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

Requiring going through the raising and re-raising is pretty standard.

In MN this is an absolute MUST, as there is a $60 cap on all bets.

[Randy_Refeld]

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This is an issue a lot of places. There are a lot of floormen that work in places where irregular bets would be allowed ehads up, but they aren't familiar enough with certain aspects of the rules to realize it.

Other than going all-in in limit there are other irregular bets that would be allwoed heads up. In a NL games normally a raise must be at least the size of the previous bet; however heads up a smaller raise should be allowed (many rule books say "a raise must be at least the size of the previous bet unless heads up"). This NL rule is pretty clear, but I would wager that if we polled floormen working today less than 25% would allow the small raise.

Heads up in limit if action is offered and accpeted that action should be binding, but you run a risk of the floor being unfamiliar with the reasoning behind different rules.