Bellagio Ruling Question

[Randy_Refeld]

I have worked a few places on the floor and was quoting what I have ruled.

[FatalError]

the chips/cash would have to be hidden on purpose or in some other reasonably deceptive way to not count, such as under a rack, under a napkin, hidden in a stack behind other stacks or such, in a case like that those chips would not generally be allowed to play unless the player moving all in wanted them to

[sully4321]

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Interesting question. Most of the time when a player rebuys, he gets his chips from the dealer, and the other players can take note of that, and know you have more chips. If you just took them out of your pocket, and didn't inform the dealer, i'm not sure if you chips are in play. However, it is a player's responsibility to be aware of the others chip stacks. Maybe a dealer could give you a ruling on this one.

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in 90% of casinos his chips only have to be on the table before the hand is dealt to be considered to be in play... same ruling applies to cash if it is on the table before the deal, it can be used to buy chips or be used as chips during the hand. some may consider your move an angle-shoot although you clearly had no intentions of doing so.

i say he is all-in.

[lighterjobs]

the guy who put you all in is definately an idiot because there is a difference between 19 red chips and 2 black chips if you didn't have the blacks sitting behind. if he couldn't see all your chips he should have just asked for a count.

[goofball]

Of course his bet is binding. Verbal action in turn. The only mildly interesting questino is do your chips play, I'm pretty sure they do.

[Xelent]

Yes, my chips definetly do count in play. It was not even the first hand I put the black chips in. And they were ON TOP of my stack, not hidden.