CASINOS with weird rules

MeistroMeistro
in Brick & Mortar Casino Talk
i was just @ casino regina and they have the rule that if someone bets $10, someone goes all in $16, then the person who bet $10 has the option to reraise. What other weird rules have you encountered in Canadian Casinos? In winnipeg they make you post two sets of blinds if you miss the blinds and come back in the blind.

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  • trigstrigs
    Meistro wrote: »
    In winnipeg they make you post two sets of blinds if you miss the blinds and come back in the blind.

    wtf?
  • DrTyoreDrTyore
    Meistro wrote: »
    i was just @ casino regina and they have the rule that if someone bets $10, someone goes all in $16, then the person who bet $10 has the option to reraise. What other weird rules have you encountered in Canadian Casinos? In winnipeg they make you post two sets of blinds if you miss the blinds and come back in the blind.

    I've heard some places say that if the all in is at least 1/2 the previous bet it re-opens the betting, so that's not uncommon.

    The 2xBB is pretty messed up though. What happens if you come back in the dealer spot? A BB+SB is standard and cheaper.

    Mark
  • MiloMilo
    Meistro wrote: »
    i was just @ casino regina and they have the rule that if someone bets $10, someone goes all in $16, then the person who bet $10 has the option to reraise. What other weird rules have you encountered in Canadian Casinos? In winnipeg they make you post two sets of blinds if you miss the blinds and come back in the blind.

    What exactly is so weird about that? Assuming of course that this rule is voided when HU? The all-in bet was more than 50% of the previous bet, and so action would normally be reopened to the initial bettor, no?
  • aj10101aj10101
    in the poker clubs in nanaimo and comox valley they play with a 5 bb cap preflop and then nl the rest of the way. aces get cracked so often it is sickening.
  • trigstrigs
    aj10101 wrote: »
    in the poker clubs in nanaimo and comox valley they play with a 5 bb cap preflop and then nl the rest of the way. aces get cracked so often it is sickening.

    wtf is the point of capping it 5BBs preflop?
  • aj10101aj10101
    trigs wrote: »
    wtf is the point of capping it 5BBs preflop?

    I'm not sure what the reason was, but i have a few thoughts. it coud be to make the game seem friendlier. the game was also a short buy in. 2/5 played with a 40-200 buy in. some people just don't like their 15 raise getting raised to 45. i think the rule was there to help the rake. with a preflop cap you can call to the flop with just about anything, and lots of people would, meaning you'd have the being capped preflop with 4 or more players to the flop more often than not, and that means lots of full rake hands. it also means the more skilled players had the advantage of more dead money to fight over post flop.
  • trigstrigs
    aj10101 wrote: »
    it coud be to make the game seem friendlier. the game was also a short buy in. 2/5 played with a 40-200 buy in.

    this makes sense.
  • 800OVER800OVER
    Milo wrote: »
    What exactly is so weird about that? Assuming of course that this rule is voided when HU? The all-in bet was more than 50% of the previous bet, and so action would normally be reopened to the initial bettor, no?

    That's the rule fo sho.
  • MeistroMeistro
    No. In no limit you must raise at least the amount of the previous raise to reopen the betting. So if someone bets $5, I raise to $15, and someone goes all in for $24 (a raise of $9) I am not allowed to reraise (anyone else in the hand is, of course). This is in contrast to limit hold'em where an all in raise of at least half of the bet reopens the betting.
  • compueasecompuease Admin
    Meistro wrote: »
    No. In no limit you must raise at least the amount of the previous raise to reopen the betting. So if someone bets $5, I raise to $15, and someone goes all in for $24 (a raise of $9) I am not allowed to reraise (anyone else in the hand is, of course). This is in contrast to limit hold'em where an all in raise of at least half of the bet reopens the betting.

    Depends on the casino locale... fo sho...
  • MiloMilo
    Meistro wrote: »
    No. In no limit you must raise at least the amount of the previous raise to reopen the betting. So if someone bets $5, I raise to $15, and someone goes all in for $24 (a raise of $9) I am not allowed to reraise (anyone else in the hand is, of course). This is in contrast to limit hold'em where an all in raise of at least half of the bet reopens the betting.

    I have never heard of a card room where, in NLHE, a raise of 50%+ over the previous bet did not re-open the action. I fully admit my lack of experience in field research, but that rule is pretty much the standard . . . or so I have been led to believe.
  • MeistroMeistro
    What casinos have you played @ where that is the case? AFAIK all Ontario casinos (for no limit) have the proper rule, that an all in raise must be a full raise (size of the previous raise) to reopen the betting.
  • Richard~Richard~
    Pokerstars tilted me so bad when at tournament limit 75/150 villain checked, villain 2 went all in for 6 chips, I called 6 and villain 1 was allowed to checkraise for 1500
  • getem76getem76
    At lac lemy, 2-5 had about 1100+ behind, wake up with AA, made it $35 after 2 limps, got raised to $110, I said I make it $1100... he asks me what I'm doing I said "I move in" he calls I show him he shows me AA BAH...dealer starts RUNNING it we both start shaking our hands "nonono" nothing actually happened but wheres the basic concept of chop before the flop when its up to who is in the pot!
  • HobbesHobbes
    umm usually the chop happens when folded to the SB.

    Money went in, why chop before the flop?
  • getem76getem76
    When you both have AA and its a 2k+ pot and NOT online whats the point of running it and losing rake easy enough...Similar senario at seneca probably less than a orbit later after losing a massive pot when i turned the nuts and he filled up, anyways, 2-5 someone raises to 40, i move in with AA for 600+ moved in over top by someone with 1100+ the 40 folded, i just said ONE TIME flipped it up, he thought i was steaming and had AK, showed the others offered to chop, i shook no flop no nothing!

    I am not going to flip on AA/AA ever thats just a waste, if I wanted to gamble like that I would go out behind the casino with a coin and flip for $100 at a time "no rake or fish in that game!"
  • Wetts1012Wetts1012
    fwiw Ive never sat at a casino cash table where players heads up chopped when there was already action. Once the cards get turned up I think the dealer must run a board.
  • T8urmoneyT8urmoney
    agreed, never seen a chop when there was action at a casino.......home game?
  • getem76getem76
    No actually it was at seneca when it was just head up and all in with the same hands, he offered, I shook really I have little interest in a flip with the same unsuited hands.
  • MeistroMeistro
    I would definitely rather chop the pot w/ someone who has exactly the same equity as me and forgo the variance than gamble it up.
  • getem76getem76
    That and probably the diff from US to CA, course in canada most times you can be treated better than not....but you escape the rake with the chop as well, we took the $40 and blinds.
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