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Message: [QUOTE="Four Dogs, post: 964118, member: 2668"] Pushing your chips forward and then pulling them back is not a string bet . A string bet is making a verbal declaration of your impending action and then modifying it. An example would be "I call.... and reraise you all in" or "I raise 100... and 500 more". While the 2 are obstensibly the same, the problem with an actual string bet is that the end of the declared action is ambiguous and any pause between two declarations can be used to gather information on your opponents impending reaction. I agree that the intent of pushing your chips forward and then withdrawing them serves exactly the same purpose, however, the conclusion of the action is far less ambiguous, namely, the removal of your hands from the stack. This no different from chess and makes the decisions of the dealer and the acknowlegement of all other players at the table alot simpler. Poker tournaments would become prohibitally unmanagable if the ruling were based on the chips moving past some imagined line and left up to the descretion of the dealer. All consistency between different tables would evaporate and precious time would be waisted debating the validity of that ruling. Even with this ACTION LINE, we could imagine the inevitable debate over how far over the line did the chips go, or what portion of the chips crossed the line, or what happens when the top of a stack accidentally spills over the line. Many of the rules applied at major poker tournaments are designed not so much to be fair, as they are to drive the progress of the tournament itself without need of costly intervention by tournament officials. It would seem to me that the only unambiguous, indeputable and clearly defined conclusion to this sort of bet is the removal of the bettors hands from the chip stack. It's all good and well that we make rail calls from the comfort of our lazy-boy 3 months after the conclusion of a tournament, but how would you feel if you were actually sitting at the table with a short stack and the blind clock ticking down while officials play detective deliberating over the intent of an event that they did not themselves witness? [/QUOTE]

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