4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,233
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I've been playing a live game that is very laid-back and chill. However, most of the players have vastly more experience at live poker than me, especially in city poker clubs. My live experience is basically in casual home games.
A couple players told me I was doing some things that are considered uncool and in bad form:
1. When I was in multiway pots and wanted to reraise, but not go all in (I was big stack most of the night), I would tell the raiser, "I'll put you all in." I was told that this is considered rude and could get me in trouble in some places...I stopped doing it, but I had done it because I had always found it intimidating when people have done that to me and live poker is very much a psychological game. As a live-game neophyte I wonder if this is a regional thing or if it is very much unacceptable everywhere...
2. I'm not used to making quick calculations on chip stacks ... a couple times I would ask preflop raisers how much they had behind in order to decide if it was worth calling with hands like small pairs....this also annoyed a couple people. I realize they don't have to answer but is it OK to ask?
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