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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 658121, member: 23910"] Exactly right. Pushing forward your hand with one card up and one card down is actually considered a fold. There was a post on this a while back with a whole lot of useful stuff if you wanna do a search for it, but I'll paraphrase: [B]Don't string bet:[/B] a string bet is when, in the absence of any verbal announcement, you push forward a pile of chips then go back to your stack and push forward [I]another[/I] pile. Only the first pile you pushed forward will be allowed to stand - I see this one happen most often when people are going all-in: they just start pushing out chips without announcing anything, and their bet gets cut short at the first chunk to be moved onto the table. Dealing live games, I have to pull a player up on this at least once a week. The lesson? Always announce what you're going to do when it's your turn. If you're going all in, just say "all in", then you can take whatever time you need to move your chips in, and do it in as many trips as is necessary. Similarly, if you're going to raise, just say "raise". [B]Don't act out of turn:[/B] some places will just shoot you dirty looks for this, some will take action if you keep doing it, so just don't. Always wait for your turn. [B]Single oversized chips:[/B] unless you announce otherwise, if you thrown in a single oversized chip (say, a $100 chip when the bet is only $40), in the absence of any verbal declaration your bet will be deemed a [I]call[/I]. If you mean to call, just say call and avoid any confusion. If you mean to raise, say raise. [B]Don't muck your winning hand:[/B] something online players will never have come across - once your hand touches the muck, it's declared dead. So if there's only two of you left in the hand and you muck your cards while the other player still has theirs, then [I]they[/I] win the pot. Even if you had the winning hand. So never muck your winning hand - either let the dealer take it away after they've given you the pot, or wait until they ask you to throw it in. [B]Don't talk about hands while they're happening:[/B] same live as online, but the temptation live is greater to say "Damn, I would've had a full house" when the flop comes JJ5 and you mucked J5 yourself. Online, you'd be saying it to an empty room. Live, you're saying it within earshot of other people who are still playing the hand and it could influence the result. [B]Don't tell the truth about your hand:[/B] a whack rule, but a rule none the less: you're not allowed to tell people the truth about your hand. You're not allowed to tell the other player in a hand "I have a flush" if you actually [I]do [/I]have a flush. You're allowed to tell them you have quads if you have a flush though. Go figure. [B]Don't heckle your dealer:[/B] there's one at every table: someone who keeps telling the dealer "This is the third time you've given me this hand" or "What's with these crap cards you keep giving me" or something along those lines. We've heard it before, and we've got no control over what cards you're getting and while we might even sympathise sometimes, there's not much we can do about it. So please don't heckle, and frown at anyone who[I] is[/I] heckling for us :D [/QUOTE]

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