Warning to B&M newbies on the meaning of "table stakes"!

[Softrock]

The rule varies from room to room. In most of the places I've played in California if you have more than 1/2 of the second bet in, then it's OK and not a string raise.

[Luv2DriveTT]

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I also had an interesting lesson in actions vs. words. In the Mandalay tourney, when the bet was $50 to me and I had plenty of $25 chips, I tossed in a $100 chip and said nothing, assuming it would be understood I was raising. No dice. I was deemed to have bet $50. So from then on I made sure to say "raise" when raising and "call" whenever calling with a chip bigger than the bet.

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That is a standard rule everywhere. Unless you say raise before the chip hits, you are just calling and will get back your change.

As for String Bets - In a limit game as long as you say raise FIRST you can put your chips out at your own pace, one at a time if you like. NL is a diferent horse altogether for the obvious reason. So Mr. Trailer Park Trash was correct the second time, but not the first time when he berated you.

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[Cohiba Al]

At Foxwoods there is a single chip rule as well, where if you put in a single chip of a denomination larger than the current bet you are considered to have only called unless verbalizing "raise". Putting out multiple chips will automatically be considered raising if the amount is atleast 1.5 times the current bet (and thus not a string-bet if you happen to miss by just one chip).

Putting out a black $100 chip on a $25 dollar bet will be a call unless you say "raise".

Putting out three $5 chips on a $10 dollar bet will be a raise and the dealer will have you complete the raise to $20.

[Bulldog]

I had a discussion about this at the Borgata the other day. I was playing 6/12, and preflop a player put a green ($25) and a white ($1) chip in. I asked if it was a raise and he said no. After the hand I wanted an explanation as to why, because the rule about amounts over being a call applied to a single chip, and this player put $26 in two chips in. Everybody agreed it was a call so I didn't make a stink, I said I just wanted to understand. I still don't.

[PokerFink]

I'm assuming that he put this $26 to call one small bet. Therefore, he gets change of $20, instead of $19, if he had put in just the green. Twenty works out evently to four nickels, which is why he put in the extra white chip in the first place.

In most places, if you don't verbally declare raise, it ain't a raise, unless you put in the exact right amount for a raise.

[Randy_Refeld]

If poker was played exactly by a set of written rules this would be a raise. It is not a raise becasue everyone "knows" he was making it easier for the dealer to make change.

Randy Refeld

[GuyOnTilt]

Later, when the player in UTG performed the same $7 bet without saying anything, trailor-park guy called "string-raise," and got the openraise disallowed. Is this the rule everywhere?

Yes, it is.

BTW, that guy didn't happen to look like the trailer-park version of John Edwards, did he?

GoT