Anybody else have a problem with the fact that string betting is almost always called just so people can see a cheap flop (or a cheap card) not because they think the guy was actually angling?
At my .25/.50 game last week, late in the night, somebody opened to $2, got 3 callers, so I made it $12. But I was more than half drunk and did it sloppily throwing out two $1s with one hand and two $5s with the other and apparently not quite at the same time. (I later checked with another player and he said yeah it was noticeable - for the game we were playing, I thought it was fine, but if you were at Foxwoods or something, they would have called it a string bet.)
Guy next to me was like what the fuck was that, that’s an illegal bet. And I said bullshit, I just used two hands at the same time. I asked the next player and he said yeah he also thought it was a string bet. So I immediately pulled back my raise and just flatted along with everybody else and we all got to see the flop for two bucks.
I know we have rules that we all have to follow, so okay fine. But does it annoy anybody else that this is how that rule is always called? I promise you, nobody at that table thought I was angling. If one hand came out after the the other it was less than half a second difference. Nobody at that table though thought I was trying to get a reaction or do something unfair - THEY ALL JUST WANTED TO SEE THE FLOP FOR CHEAP and so they busted me on a technicality.
And so yeah, I’m just whining about it. But that’s pretty much exactly how I’ve seen the rule invoked everytime, everywhere I’ve seen it invoked.
Does anybody else feel the same way? It’s not that it’s a bullshit rule, but it’s always invoked for bullshit reasons.
Maybe this should be in the bullshit thread.
At my .25/.50 game last week, late in the night, somebody opened to $2, got 3 callers, so I made it $12. But I was more than half drunk and did it sloppily throwing out two $1s with one hand and two $5s with the other and apparently not quite at the same time. (I later checked with another player and he said yeah it was noticeable - for the game we were playing, I thought it was fine, but if you were at Foxwoods or something, they would have called it a string bet.)
Guy next to me was like what the fuck was that, that’s an illegal bet. And I said bullshit, I just used two hands at the same time. I asked the next player and he said yeah he also thought it was a string bet. So I immediately pulled back my raise and just flatted along with everybody else and we all got to see the flop for two bucks.
I know we have rules that we all have to follow, so okay fine. But does it annoy anybody else that this is how that rule is always called? I promise you, nobody at that table thought I was angling. If one hand came out after the the other it was less than half a second difference. Nobody at that table though thought I was trying to get a reaction or do something unfair - THEY ALL JUST WANTED TO SEE THE FLOP FOR CHEAP and so they busted me on a technicality.
And so yeah, I’m just whining about it. But that’s pretty much exactly how I’ve seen the rule invoked everytime, everywhere I’ve seen it invoked.
Does anybody else feel the same way? It’s not that it’s a bullshit rule, but it’s always invoked for bullshit reasons.
Maybe this should be in the bullshit thread.