Is this a string bet?

[DesertCat]

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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.


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The dealer doesn't know how strong your hand is. If I have quads on the river, and my opponent makes a very large bet that's clearly a string bet, I don't want the dealer to say anything. This has happened before and I was very unhappy. It's not protecting me to interfere in my hand.

[lmcjaho]

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The dealer doesn't know how strong your hand is. If I have quads on the river, and my opponent makes a very large bet that's clearly a string bet, I don't want the dealer to say anything. This has happened before and I was very unhappy. It's not protecting me to interfere in my hand.

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True, but by the same token if you are bluffing the turn and the dealer doesn't call it you don't want to make a stink yourself and reveal how weak you are if you wanted to throw another bluff out on the river, so having the dealer enforce the rules would be helpful in this case no?

[pfapfap]

Letting the players call it removes the dealer from having too much influence on the game. I can certainly imagine the headache at my room if I made judgment calls, considering that technically a lot of string betting happens every hand. I'm there to keep the game going smoothly for the players. Usually it's minor and not any sort of angle-shoot (whereas calling a string bet often is), and it's a lot easier to let the game move along smoothly. If a player in the hand has issue with it, s/he says something, and I deal with it.

[DesertCat]

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True, but by the same token if you are bluffing the turn and the dealer doesn't call it you don't want to make a stink yourself and reveal how weak you are if you wanted to throw another bluff out on the river, so having the dealer enforce the rules would be helpful in this case no?

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Not sure what you are saying. If I'm bluffing the turn I'm betting. And if I don't want to be called on a string bet I won't string bet.

[onadraw]

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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?

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Im gonna say the this sounds like it was probably a string bet.

[UbinTook]

Unless he brought both hands out at the same time, it is considered two moves( right hand, then left hand) and therefore a string.
If he brings both hand/chips out at the SAME time then no string.

Dealer calling strings is room dependant.

It is arguable that if the rule is posted "string bets are not allowed" then the dealer SHOULD call strings as it is a house rule and should be enforced uniformly by the dealers.

[Ramon Scott]

Protect the players, sometimes the opponent wants the other player to raise more.

[rbenuck4]

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Unless he brought both hands out at the same time, it is considered two moves( right hand, then left hand) and therefore a string.
If he brings both hand/chips out at the SAME time then no string.


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He brought both hands out at the same time

[RR]

I was thinking that Resorts in Indiana (much to my surprise) used traditional NL betting rules, so no not a string bet.

[AngusThermopyle]

The intent of the string bet rule is (in the absence of a verbal declarartion) to make a player put his chips into the pot in one unambiguous motion.

Dropping one fistful of chips....






and then dropping the second fistful

is not one continuous motion.
Tell Junior to grow up, stop watching TV pokah, and play Poker.

My vote is for string bet.