At one of our home games, this would for sure be a call, since there is a cash game house rule that a valid raise must be at least double the value of the last bet.
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Dumb question about a raise or call. (5 Viewers)
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WedgeRock
Royal Flush
What the skibidi rizz, Sigma?
Kentucky
Two Pair
Don’t start that again
But he put out 2 chips. If he could have put out a $5 and a $1, then two $5’s would be a raise since he could have called with two chips. If he does not have tha capacity to call with a $1 chip then 2 $5 chips would constitute a call. It’s very simple.
@BPTDirector Thank you! That’s exactly what I was getting at to interpret their action! But noooooo, the possibilities are apparently “wide open”!
It's a crazy misguided rule.
Scenario: A bets $2 bet, B raises $4 to $6 total, C tosses out two $5 chips (totaling $10, a legal re-raise amount of $4 more).
• if C first says 'call', it's a call
• if C first says 'raise', it's a raise
• if C remains silent, it's a call... wait, wat?
That last one seems nuts to me. C put in a legal raise amount, and it should not matter if it consisted of ten $1 chips, two $5 chips, or a $5 chip and five $1s. It's still a multiple-chip bet totaling a legal raise amount.
The TDA gang got this one wrong, imo.... mostly because there is no need for their rule in the first place.
Scenario: A bets $2 bet, B raises $4 to $6 total, C tosses out two $5 chips (totaling $10, a legal re-raise amount of $4 more).
• if C first says 'call', it's a call
• if C first says 'raise', it's a raise
• if C remains silent, it's a call... wait, wat?
That last one seems nuts to me. C put in a legal raise amount, and it should not matter if it consisted of ten $1 chips, two $5 chips, or a $5 chip and five $1s. It's still a multiple-chip bet totaling a legal raise amount.
The TDA gang got this one wrong, imo.... mostly because there is no need for their rule in the first place.
drdr
Straight
Exactly how it appears to me also. If sufficient chips for a raise have been pushed (beyond a single chip) then it looks like raise. Opens angling attempts. Chips speak (normally) but if a call is intended in this scenario that should be verbalised.
drdr
Straight
IMO, shouldn't have to inspect a stack's composition to determine all the possible actions available, to then determine what the action is. That's more complicated than necessary. Should just be able to note the chips played to understand the action.
It doesn’t matter what chips a player has in their stack. There are no rules forcing a player to use certain denominations of chips when calling or raising.
Exactly. $4 in this specific case is a LEGAL raise amount from $6 during preflop action.
That is why I said earlier that this action would be a call post flop but a raise preflop.
what rules is this from?
The chips in someone's stack have no bearing here. This is always a call. It's the first sentence
Dealer school documentation
Jimulacrum
Full House
It's a call. Minimum number of chips required to make the call, no additional chips, no raise announced. This is not materially different than if the bet was $1 and he'd thrown out a lone $5 chip.
Always best to verbalize, but the rules are clear about this and it's a call.
Always best to verbalize, but the rules are clear about this and it's a call.
WedgeRock
Royal Flush
A single overchip without verbalization is a raise...
I think we all agree on that.
Again, you can eagerly defer to others on this. The purpose of the rule is to remove angling opportunities, to reduce multiple possible meanings down to one and create a shared understanding and a familiarity across markets.
You and others are thinking about it from the perspective of someone who intends to raise, but imagine a scenario where a player facing an $80 raise to $120. That player who is wanting to call can confidently throw out two black chips and know that it is a call, and the other players in the hand will know that it is a call. They are all protected by the rule.
Where you would be vulnerable is in the diminishingly rare room that follows the non-standard rule, but you would already be on high alert anyway because that is likely far from the only non-standard rule that they have.
That's just a call. A Raise would need to be $12 or higher.
Min-raise is $9
Raise needs to Double the previous amount, unless All In for less.
Not even close
A min raise is twice the previous raise.
BB = $3, someone raised to $6, therefore it’s a call and a $3 raise. A call plus a $3 raise on top of this would be a $9 min raise.
Guess we play the Canadian way like @allforcharity no half stepping here.
Fyp, and absolutely correct.
Beauty of House Rules, people can come, or not.
At the home game I speak of, min-raising is considered a sign of profound hand weakness and will be jumped upon.
WedgeRock
Royal Flush
Seat open?
I am a bit tilted, 25+ years, online or Live, both sides of the border; have never played anywhere that didn't have to double as a min raise.
Jimulacrum
Full House
This is one of my favorite misconceptions to have to spell out for everyone in the middle of a hand.
Most players don't seem to understand when I say that each raise has to be at least the last increment of raise. Even if I use the current situation's numbers as a concrete example, I'm pretty sure half the people nodding their heads are just pretending to get it.
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