Question regarding the Double The Raise rule...

[Rick Nebiolo]

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I think you are mistaken as to the reason for the rule. FOr as long as I can remember the current manager of the room has told me he thinks its a better rule because he believes that ist un fair to allow players to keep making a small raise back and forth to catch a player between them, not that his dealers can't figure out how to work the more standard rule.

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This is what I was told by Dave Simon of Hawaiian Gardens. Dave at HG had multiple no limit games going a year before the WPT (and hole card cams) started the current boom.

A series of mini-raises was almost unheard of in the few games played years ago. Now in the very small games you will see it in the LA clubs with the regular rule. Instead at HG the "double the bet you are facing" rule allows the initial mini-raise but forces players to put in something close to a "real" raise for subsequent raises.

~ Rick