Question about double bets.

[Jetto]

If its a 20-40 limit stud game

now once 4th street is in progress and someone has 2 Q's.

1) he is allowed to double bet right?
2) ONLY on 4th street can you double bet IF you decide to
3) If you double bet on 4th street is that 2x the 20 or only 1 x the 20?

3) cont.

if in a 20-40 game if someone has a double bet if they decide to double bet in 4th strrt they would RAISE TO 40?? instead of a 20 increment bet?

and if the above player declines to double bet and just bets 20... can the NEXT player Double bet?




Got kinda confused onthis matter so any clarification can help..thx.

[templar999]

1. generally yes, but depends on house rules.
2. yes. there cant be an exposed pair on 3rd and 5th street is a higher betting round.
3. not sure what you're asking. in a 20/40 game, with open queens, you have the option of betting 20 or 40.
3 cont. if a double bet is made, the raise is based off the double bet. if someone double bets 40, you cant raise to 60, you must raise to 80. if someone bets 20 with open queens, you generally do not have an option to raise to either 40 or 60, though this rule definitely varies by house.

[mrmr]

If anyone's door card is paired by 4th street, anyone who opens the betting may do so by single or double betting (in your 20/40 example, that means $20 or $40 respectively).

If it is opened for a double, then all further raises on 4th street must be in double ($40) increments.

If it is opened for a single, a raiser may raise single ($20 more on top of the $20), or double ($40 more, making it $60 total).

Until/unless someone makes a double bet (or raise), it is a single bet-size round. But if someone does make a double, there is no going back; you can not re-raise by the single bet amount.

[Jetto]

so the first player has a pair of 2's.

he wants to Double bet ( and since its a 20 doller limit still) he could either raise TO 20$ or TO 40$?

then the rest of teh player either FOLD, CAll ( call the raise) or raise themselves to 60$$ ( since he double bet to 40 that means the increments are still at 20 doller raise this round and you cant double bet twice in a round)

or is it still wrong?

[Andy B]

The fourth street rule only applies on fourth street. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Using your $20/40 example, if someone is showing an open pair, he has the option of betting either $20 or $40. If he checks, the subsequent players also have the option of betting $20 or $40. If someone bets $40, all subsequent raises must be $40. In any room I've ever played in, if the bettor bets $20, then a raiser has the option of raising either to $40 or to $60. Once there has been a $40 bet or raise, all subsequent raises must be $40.

I seem to recall that Paradise had things set up such that if the bettor bet the minimum, raises were the minimum as well.

[Jetto]

Yea thx man...Ill go on some sites and see if I can get it cleared up.

since you say all subsquent raises must be 40$ that means 40$ increments correct?

[Andy B]

Yes.