String bet question

[Zybomb]

So I am right in thinking that the reason this would not be a string bet was because his hand was still on the last of the stacks (kind of like holding your hand on a chess piece after moving it doesn't constitute a move) and then announced an amount, but if he had released his hand before saying anything then it'd be a string?

[Talking Poker]

That is my understanding of it, yes. What he did is certainly not the preferred method of raising, and if he did it repeatedly, he would probably be asked to start stating his raise amounts. But it's not a string bet.

And I agree with your response to Robbie... Once you state that you are raising AND declare the amount of your bet (or the raise, of course), then you may make as many motions as you like. But you most definitely can't say "Raise," and then make a min raise, look around the table, throw a few more chips in, look around the table, throw a few more chips in, watch the player behind you fold, throw a few more chips in, watch the guy behind him fold, throw a few more in, watch the guy behind him "call" and then and only then stop string betting.

State the amount or move your chips into the pot in one motion. Simple as that.

[bunny]

That's what I was referring to in my post.

If your min raise isn't met, and you had announced a "Raise", you are allowed to go back to your chip stack until that min raise is met.(Dealer will motion you to do so). If you met you're min raise requirement and removed your hand from the pot in front of you, then you may not go back to get more chips to add to it. The dealer will disallow that.

[Zybomb]

If you dont raise the minimum and let go, the dealer will instruct you that you need X more dollars to raise...and your raise becomes a min. raise, you can not make it bigger

[bunny]

Isn't that, more or less, what I just said?

[Talking Poker]

Yed, but you are talking about something else. You can't "string bet" a minimum raise (assuming you said the words "raise"). That would be like saying "Call" for a $20 bet and only putting $10 in the pot. You'll be instructed to put another $10 in the pot, but this isn't a "string call." LOL...

[Talking Poker]

The dealer will not "allow" you to go back to your stack to complete your minimum raise - the dealer will "make" you go back to your stack to complete your minimum raise.

If you lead out for $100 and I say "raise" and put $101 in the pot, he will MAKE me put $99 more into the pot, because that's the minimum raise.

[bunny]

Bad choice of word, on my part. Replace "allow" with "MAKE"! I meant what you just said, though. I bet if you were Canadian, you'd have understood me right away.

[Zybomb]

Here's my problem with this then.

What's stopping me from saying "raise" (say of a $50 dollar bet) Putting in 20, 5 dollar chips and keeping my hand on them, looking around the table to get a read, then either keeping it a min bet, or announce a larger raise

[bunny]

You'd have the legal right to do that. Unless it really annoys the other players and they complain and then the management tells you to refrain from doing so.

[Talking Poker]

Nothing. That's legal. Annoying, but legal. After this happens once or twice (I would imagine once), the player will usually be instructed to count out his chips next to his cards (not in the pot) or to announce the size of his bet before moving chips into the pot.

*Some casinos use a "line" (and actual oval drawn on the table in front of all the players) to avoid this sort of problem. Once a chip crosses the line, it can not go back to your stack. If you reach out with your entire stack in your hand and drop off two $5 chips to call a $10 bet, they will say that your entire stack must stay in the middle. That's your bet. This is the exception and not the rule, and it's stupid IMO. That's why I didn't bring it up until now. But there are some places like this.