Tournament question from a novice

resisting tmy personal tendency to keep "top" posting.......... I wrote balance
below with a partial "snip" from an excellent explanation by da pickle..
__________________Diane________________________________________
 
On Dec 27 2007 9:25 AM, da pickle wrote:

> Your peculiar style makes it difficult to know exactly to what you are
> responding, so I reformatted your reply.
>
> I am 100% correct in what I said. I will say it again for you.
>
> If the blinds are 1000/2000 and you are under the gun with a 5k chip and you
> toss your chip into the pot without comment, you are "calling" 2k and if
> there is no further action, the dealer will return three 1k chips to you.
>
> If the small blind tosses a 5k chip on top of the 1k chip without comment,
> there have been problems with the interpretation. It is my opinion that the
> majority of ruling would be that the single chip is a call, unless the
> player says "raise." This is a situation not previously anticipated in this
> thread and it is the most troublesome. (Many times, the small blind player
> will reach out and pull in the single 1k chip and substitute the single 5k
> chip. This happens all the time. It is somewhat irritating, but it
> sometimes speeds up the game. Often players will "make change" themselves.
> This is all irritating, but it is not going to change in the future.)
>
> (snipped balance)
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As a long term tourney player in many venues all over the country, I agree with
the explanation provided in good detail by da pickle and Joe Long.

I will also acknowledge though that especially these days with the influx of
online players with minimal "live" experience, the over-sized chip rule is a big
hassle and time waster in tournaments.  As others have said, simply get in the
good habit of always announcing what you are doing each time BEFORE any of your
chip(s) cross the line or hit the felt ,and you have protected your right to
take any intended action that your heart desires.

Diane from Green Bay


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