Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Poker Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: LongshanksED on February 13, 2009, 02:36:48 AM
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was playing in a live game tonight £10 unlimited rebuy and so during the rebuy period lots of silly stuff was going on
i could handle the crazy calls, i was sitting tight and playing ABC poker and doing ok but one the got my heckles up was that 2 players, whenever they where UTG they"d raise the BB, BEFORE any cards where dealt pre flop
eg BB was 100 and during the shuffle they"d say raise to 400 blind
i can understand this in a cash game but not in a tourney
was these plays even legal? - i didnt want to get the TD involved and look like a whiny bitch and i turned out to be wrong
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Don"t think there"s anything wrong here. As long as you"re not betting out of turn betting in the dark like that is fine.
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yep no problem with this, although it"s pretty stupid. In a cash game it"s known as a "live straddle", and the benefit is that firstly it juices up the pot a little, but it also means that the UTG person who straddles has an option to check or raise if the betting gets round to him with no other re-raise (in effect he is the new BB).
In a tournament it"s a pretty dozy play as the URG raises has no options if the betting finds its way back to him with no re-raise.
You just have to pray that you wake up with a hand and can take the dead money.