March 25, 2007 by frenchflush.

Hello,

I must tell you I have a lot of success right now in France with blind structures WITHOUT ANTE! For example I’m right now preparing a 300 euros tournament structure for a big casino with blinds but no ante.

The reasons not to use ante:

1- It does not slow down the action or the tournament duration because I use the famous 5% rule to anticipate the end (when the BB is 5% of the total chip stack!). For example: my next tourney will be a freezout of 200 players with 1000 points so I KNOW the end will be very close to the blind round 5000-10000 (or mostly exactly there)!

2- It lighten the work of the floor & dealers because the chip-races (colors-up) can be done sooner (with antes you need the little denominations more late to pay the antes). So the total mass of chips is lighter, making the movements more easy and the reading of the stacks more easy for everybody (players & dealers).

3- it lighten the work of the dealers and the risks of errors at the initial bet because the control of the blinds is more easy!

4- it makes the tournament more popular to the players because they feel like they have less pressure (while you still control the end of the tournament with the 5% technic!).

Best regards,

GG

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March 22, 2007 by frenchflush.

Hello, I know the general rule saying that a player moved at a table would never be given cards if he is at the SB position (and it’s logical!).

But what about this particular circumstances:

Round before:

A was Button

B was SB

C was BB

… During that round C is eliminated AND THE ONLY FREE CHAIR IS THAT ONE (the chair of C) …

Because of this elimination (or any other one) a table is closed somewhere else and player X is send to the seat of C:

So now (for me):

B is Button

X is SB

D is BB

I pretend here that X must be given cards and pay the SB because:

-it doesn’t change absolutely nothing for the other players!

-it could be an advantage for him not to pay the SB (when blinds are high)! 

-it would complicate the blind&button responsabilities for no use!

 … What do you think about that …?

TY

GG

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March 19, 2007 by storit.

This weekend, I was playing in a small home tournament.  The range of players was from fairly experienced all the way down to a few that probably only play 2-3 times a year.  After the tournament the usual “very loose” cash game started, and this is what happened;

Player “A” in early position raised.  Player “B” was considering his options when player “C” immediately to his left called the raise acting out of turn.  Player “B” and the dealer immediately spoke up and said to hold up because the action was stopped.  About 5 seconds went by and player “D” who was obviously enjoying his adult beverages asked if the action was to him, when both player “B” and the dealer told him to wait because the action was stopped.  About 10 seconds later player “D” announced “I raise” and doubled the bet causing player “B” to thow his cards into the muck.  Player “D” immediately pulled his chips back and said, “Not really”. 

The ruling that was made was that the raise by player “D” must stand and that player “B”s hand was dead.

I argued that player “D”s hand should also be ruled dead because of his malicious act.  I was overruled since this was not my game and I did not have the final say.

I am not sure that my wanting to declare player “D”s hand dead would have been corect but I felt that he should have faced some sort of penalty for causing player “B” to muck after being warned twice that action had stopped.  I would have been willing to ask him to leave if this had been my game.  I assume that he would have faced some sort of penalty in a casino for this infraction.

Please let me know what you would have done

Posted in Fouled Hands, Chaos: Sloppy Mgmt of Tables & Tournament, Mucking, Dead Hands, Etc, Etiquette, Behavior, Play Procedures & Penalties, Bets, Min Raise, StringBet, Fwd Motion, Act Out-Of-Turn | Print | 2 Comments »

March 18, 2007 by frenchflush.

Hello,

After I logged in and I went to a post : if I try to leave a reply : it doesn’t work anymore!

I write my answer then click on “submit comment” … nothing happens!

Any idea?

GG 

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March 15, 2007 by -EvelcyclopS-.

Hi, I’ve been playing poker for about three years now, and while i have a good understanding of the normal rules of play i.e. the stuff that gets you by, i lack the knowledge of people like chicago mike. I have just taken over a university poker society, and one of my duties is to act as TD, we have a lot of good players, and i’d hate to make a terrible decision based on not a great deal of experience of runing tournaments. I realise there is no such thing as the rulebook, but is there somewhere other than here that i can get a better grasp of the intrecacies?

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March 9, 2007 by deucedragon.

Last tuesday i was playing in a live $10 rebuy tournament and this situation came up:

Still in the rebuy period the player UTG goes all in for 7k the player UTG+1 calls then it is my turn to act but the player to act behind me folds out of turn which causes all behind him to fold leaving just the 2 allin players left. As i speak up and say that i have not acted both players are exposing their hands. Now i see that they have 44 and AQ respectively so my KJ with 2-1 is a good call for me to make. But at this point since the dealer missed that i had not acted what is the action. It is my understanding that since i have not done anything wrong i am still free to act as i wish. There was much argument about the hand and the resident TD seemed unsure so eventually the whole hand was redealt. I would like to know if this was right (i dont believe it was).

Ryan Shiels 

Posted in Fouled Hands, All-In Bets; Re-Opening Betting, Side-Pots, Split Pots, Bets, Min Raise, StringBet, Fwd Motion, Act Out-Of-Turn, Uncategorized | Print | 7 Comments »

March 5, 2007 by Mhuggins1978.

I work in a charity poker room in New Hampshire and I ran across an odd situation this weekend and just wanted to get some feedback on my decision. The table in question was a single table sit n go. They were down to 4 players. The description of the action is based on what the dealer told me when the floor was called. The player under the gun moves all in. The player on the button looks at his hand for the first time has 3 cards he mucks his hand. At this time both blinds almost simultaneously throw their cards into the muck all 7 cards are unidentifiable. At this point the dealer calls the floor. I explained to the players that the hand with 3 cards is dead and the hand should have played out from that point but because the other players mucked their cards the pot goes to the player who was all in. Just curious what you guys would have done.

Posted in Fouled Hands, Mucking, Dead Hands, Etc, Dealer Errors, Bad Flops, Etc., Misdeals | Print | 5 Comments »