Is this a string bet?

[rbenuck4]

Resorts in Indiana 5-10 nl.

Player brings chips out with both hands, in front of his cards, drops the chips out of one hand (other hand is in front of his cards), then tries to bring the other chips down to bet with them as well. Dealer calls a string bet. Legit or not?

[DesertCat]

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Dealer calls a string bet. Legit or not?

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Nope. Dealers can't call string bets. Only players in the hand.

[Assani Fisher]

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Dealer calls a string bet. Legit or not?

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Nope. Dealers can't call string bets. Only players in the hand.

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I've seen tons of dealers call a string bet at many different casinos.

[leo doc]

Not trying to hijack the thread, but I was playing at the Beau in Biloxi a couple of days ago. Nice lady on my right said "raise" (LHE game), then pushed her chips with two hands but not exactly at the same time. (She sort of "bobbled" the chips that were in her non-dominant hand.) The dealer- and only the dealer- told her that was a string bet and that she could only call. I wasn't in the hand and told him that she clearly said "raise" before comitting her chips to the pot. He never addressed her saying "raise", only that her chips went into the pot in "two motions." She briefly objected, but was too nice to debate the point and pulled the raise back. None of the other players questioned the dealer's ruling, nor did they object to her raise by calling it a string bet.

Any comments?

[pfapfap]

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Any comments?

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Dealer's an idiot and/or control freak.

[onadraw]

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Dealer calls a string bet. Legit or not?

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Nope. Dealers can't call string bets. Only players in the hand.

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Depends on the room. In some rooms the dealer is required to call string bets.

[Dranoel]

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Dealer calls a string bet. Legit or not?

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Nope. <font color="red">Dealers can't call string bets.</font> Only players in the hand.

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<font color="red">Wrong.</font>



Poker Tournament Directors Association:

<font color="blue">Rule #39:String Raises. Dealers will be responsible for calling string raises.</font>

TDA Web Site

And...

According to Robert's Rules of Poker:

String raises are not allowed. <font color="blue">The dealer should enforce obvious infractions to this string-raise law without being asked.</font> To protect your right to raise, you should either declare your intention verbally or place the proper amount of chips into the pot. Putting a full bet plus a half-bet or more into the pot is considered to be the same as announcing a raise, and the raise must be completed. (This does not apply in the use of a single chip of greater value.)

Robert's Rules of Poker


And, yes it will vary from location to location- but most dealers (that I've sat at tables with) call string bets. The reason- if a player is forced to call a string bet it can convey weakness in your hand. If your hand is strong you want as much money in the pot.

Hope this helps.

[RR]

Dealers not calling string bets is very standard in the places that spread bigger games. The TDA change this spring was very surprising but it has nothing to do with cash games. Robert thinks it should be "no string bets allowed," but this is one of the few spots he is out of step with the actual rules.

[Dranoel]

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The TDA change this spring was very surprising but it has nothing to do with cash games.

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I referenced the TDA rule to show that, across the board- in both Cash &amp; Tourney games, Dealers are suppose to call string bets.

Which, I think is fair. But then again- my opinion rarely matters. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[RR]

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The TDA change this spring was very surprising but it has nothing to do with cash games.

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I referenced the TDA rule to show that, across the board- in both Cash &amp; Tourney games, Dealers are suppose to call string bets.

Which, I think is fair. But then again- my opinion rarely matters. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I would say not calling string bets is the more common rule (it is that way in all the card barns).

They do call string bets in out of the way places like Las Vegas [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
This might be a good place to mention that I hear all the time "they do it that way in Vegas." I would say at least 80% of the people working in poker in Vegas are clueless.

edit to add: As you go up in limits the argument for the dealer staying out of it goes up. At the higher limits it is much more likely for the players to understand what is or isn't a string bet than the dealers.