String bets - - - again

[SuuPRlim]

literally the worst rule in poker the string bet rule, and the way it's enforced in England is just laughable, what has happened in this example is what happened in for 999,999 of the last 1,000,000 times string bets have been ruled, the person has made the tiniest most insignificant mistake and someone else on the table has bent the rules to gain an unfair advantage (which is cheating) and the TD has allowed the person to cheat.

What the String Bet Rule does is this:

1) It punishes tiny insignificant mistakes for no reason.

2) It really punishes weaker, inexperienced players

3) It gives people a free pass to angleshoot

Like Keith, I've played 4 sessions of live poker every week minimum for the last 5 years and I have yet to ever see an intentional string bet. The way they enforce the rule in America is perfect, you get one motion, you can pick up 40 chips, and put 26 of them in the pot, you can accidently drop 4 and still bet 23, but it's one movement with your hand, and obv anything verbal is binding, and of course, dealer common sense is allowed to play a part. Also in the states people aren't constantly trying to enforce string bets like they do here.

[david3103]

http://www.dusktilldawncasinonottingham.com/result-info.php?id=2922

Click on "seating" not current seating.

I was on table 33 .... Seat 1 was the villain.

[bergeroo]

If you have ten 1k chips in your hand, reach well over the betting line and drop six of them one by one onto the felt with intervals of let's say half a second and then take the other four back, with no verbal announcement, how much is the bet?

[Ricardov83]

If you have ten 1k chips in your hand, reach well over the betting line and drop six of them one by one onto the felt with intervals of let's say half a second and then take the other four back, with no verbal announcement, how much is the bet?

The bet should be 1,000 but I get the feeling you have been on the receiving end of a bad ruling and for this I am sorry.

[bergeroo]

If you have ten 1k chips in your hand, reach well over the betting line and drop six of them one by one onto the felt with intervals of let's say half a second and then take the other four back, with no verbal announcement, how much is the bet?

The bet should be 1,000 but I get the feeling you have been on the receiving end of a bad ruling and for this I am sorry.

No I haven't had a bad ruling, I just kind of disagree and I think if you don't verbalise your bets then you are opening up yourself up for a ruling against you if you make a mistake, as people do now and again.

How about if it was 0.2 seconds?

I've not seen much deliberate string betting apart from in Austria. Those Austrians are a bunch of string betting scumbags.

[kinboshi]

Count them out behind the line, and then slide them together over the line to bet. Simples.

[Junior Senior]

Played in EPT Vienna in 2005 and the rule was any chips over the action line were in play. Comedy happenings in first few levels as people forgot and were for example calling 3k bets by picking up there entire 30k stack and dropping a 5 k chip off the bottom whilst hovering the rest over the line.  All in declared!

A mistake you only make once!

Also during a hand a guy fumbled his stack by total mistake whilst looking to call a smallish bet and about ten chips spilled over the line... Raise declared!

Stupidly applied rule, should have a common sense factor applied to it to allow for what the players intention was.

[Karabiner]

Played in EPT Vienna in 2005 and the rule was any chips over the action line were in play. Comedy happenings in first few levels as people forgot and were for example calling 3k bets by picking up there entire 30k stack and dropping a 5 k chip off the bottom whilst hovering the rest over the line.  All in declared!

A mistake you only make once!

Also during a hand a guy fumbled his stack by total mistake whilst looking to call a smallish bet and about ten chips spilled over the line... Raise declared!

Stupidly applied rule, should have a common sense factor applied to it to allow for what the players intention was.

[ ] Thin.

[Junior Senior]

Lol.
Hardly, youll see from my herbertmob that there aint no austrian flag flying. :-)