Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:09 pm Post subject: String Bets
Can someone please help me out? My buddies and I were playing some Texas Hold'em when myself and another got into an argument regarding betting. What is the ruling about placing your bet....for example, if you call raise before you act....can you reach into your stack, place chips on the table, then reach into your stack again and add to the bet? Or do you have to make the raise in one motion even if you call raise? Or can you make more than one motion if you say how much you are raising before you act? If someone can sum up for me this ruling about string bets a little better in detail that would be great because it is a little confusing to us.
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject:
Sure. It's an interesting question and a problem that often occurs at home games.
Correct procedure is to say "raise $xxx" and then move the chips in a single action to the dealer who checks the count and accepts to the pot. In home games anything can and often does happen due to the lack of a professional dealer.
What you can't do is place a bet and then another one in a seperate action. This is to prevent you placing a bet, recognising weakness in your opponents expressions and using that info to chip up. In your case you called raise but not the amount. It depends on the delay in your two hand movements but I would say your two hand movements to the dealer were ok because the dealer should not have accepted your first stack without clarifying the size of the bet to all other players.
Situation and argument all best avoided by agreeing table manners at the outset.
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