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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 2038164, member: 23910"]
Then I'd say the conditions for your league's jackpots were poorly conceived... or maybe they were really cleverly conceived, since it makes it even harder for the jackpot to be claimed.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the must bet the nuts in position on the river though.  It's a rule that's designed to prevent collusion in [B]all[/B] situations, and it only conflicts with your league's jackpot conditions in a miniscule number of situations.

I've heard of that stipulation for jackpots before - as I mentioned above, sometimes it's even done that way on purpose to ensure that the jackpot goes off less often.  Bigger jackpots = more draw for people to come and play, so you can see why leagues would want to skew them that way.

The really interesting bit is that it doesn't end there - if the rule does apply when the nuts are on the board then not only is the last player required to bet, but the other player (assuming it's heads up - or the last player with the option to just call if it's multi-way) would be required to [I][B]raise[/B][/I], and so on and so forth until everyone in the hand is all in.

That's a trivial matter if it's, say, a no limit tournament since everyone can just say "all in" to save time and the pot will be an even split.  If it was a limit game with deep stacks though, things could get farcical.  And if it was a cash game where the rake cap for the hand hadn't been reached yet then the players would actually lose money to be part of the tie, as opposed to just checking it down.
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