Check/Call Any

[kinboshi]

On PokerStars (and other rooms) there is a tick box for 'Check/Call Any'.

I can see that someone might want to use that in Limit - but why on earth is it there on No Limit tables?  Surely it's completely useless, and only there to catch people out who misclick?

[Ironside]

say you have a royal on the flop and want to slow play it check call any while you run off to toliet to relieve the bladder seems an option i have to use every day

[kinboshi]

say you have a royal on the flop and want to slow play it check call any while you run off to toliet to relieve the bladder seems an option i have to use every day

A valid point.  One that I should have thought of, but sadly overlooked.

 

[mex]

use it when multi tabling just incase you miss your go whilst messing with other tables, extreme cases ie 10 plus tablers

[Djinn]

say you have a royal on the flop and want to slow play it check call any while you run off to toliet to relieve the bladder seems an option i have to use every day

That is hilarious.  Genuinely the only time I can think of when this ridiculous advance box could possibly be useful in a NL game.  The only reason it exists is because developers are lazy when it comes to software conversion from the earliest Limit varieties into the now-popular NL. 

There's no excuse for new proprietary software to have this option - when reviewing sites on the Mason-Immanuel Scale of Usability (where 10 is 'can't think of improvements' and 1 is 'designed by child having asked best mate for rules of poker') NOT having a check/call any button gives them an automatic 5, no matter how shoddy the rest of the programming is.

I reckon Stars, which in so many respects is so far ahead of the competition, should ask how often players have

(a) used the NL check/call Any button with great effect, wherein they cunningly made the maximum from their nut hands, or nipped off those bluffs with a spot-on call of Any amount

(b) accidentally ticked it and found that to have been a -EV move.

[Ironside]

say you have a royal on the flop and want to slow play it check call any while you run off to toliet to relieve the bladder seems an option i have to use every day

That is hilarious.  Genuinely the only time I can think of when this ridiculous advance box could possibly be useful in a NL game.  The only reason it exists is because developers are lazy when it comes to software conversion from the earliest Limit varieties into the now-popular NL. 

There's no excuse for new proprietary software to have this option - when reviewing sites on the Mason-Immanuel Scale of Usability (where 10 is 'can't think of improvements' and 1 is 'designed by child having asked best mate for rules of poker') NOT having a check/call any button gives them an automatic 5, no matter how shoddy the rest of the programming is.

I reckon Stars, which in so many respects is so far ahead of the competition, should ask how often players have

(a) used the NL check/call Any button with great effect, wherein they cunningly made the maximum from their nut hands, or nipped off those bluffs with a spot-on call of Any amount

(b) accidentally checked it and found that to have been a -EV move.

surely you try and slow play your royal flush atleast 1 a day ok maybe every other day

i seem to run into them atleast once a day

[Djinn]

Run into them as in 'lose the lot check/calling any when someone else has one,' or run into them as in get a Royal Flush yourself...? 

If it's the latter, I want to play where you're playing/make that deal with the devil...

[Ironside]

no i run into them as in the someone on my table has one against me atleast once a day i thought they were common apart from the fact its only my oppos that seem to get them