Understand What Splashing the Pot is in Poker

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Summary: Splashing the pot is an inconvenient and inconsiderate thing to do when playing poker because it doesn't allow others to truly get a sense of how much money you just threw into the pot. Learn more in this free video series that will have you behaving like a poker pro in no time.

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Understand What Splashing the Pot is in Poker

Another form of bad poker etiquette is splashing the pot. And splashing the pot refers to having a hand full of chips and just throwing them in the pot where the dealer or the other players can't tell how much you've put into the pot. Now they could either, when you throw the chips they could either get mixed up with the pot thats already out there that the dealer has pulled in front of them, or if I throw them hard enough they could actually get mixed up with the chips that another player has actually already bet. This is just bad poker etiquette at the table, because you want to be precise with your action. If he's bet two and I want to call, then I want to put the two dollars either just past the betting line that's on the table, or just in front of my cards, so that the dealer is aware that those are my chips and that is my action. I'm calling his two dollars. Where if I want to raise and I say ok I want to raise two dollars, and lets say I don't have all of these chips in front of me, and I have to use these green chips, and I have to put more chips out there than this there. So again, I still just want to place these chips in front of me, so that the dealer and the other players can clearly see that I've placed four dollars into the pot. That I haven't just taken the chips, thrown them into the pot, and now they're all mixed in with the pot, and I can say to the dealer "yeah, I raised him ten bucks". Well, now the dealer's not quite sure, he would have to put the hand back together, pull the pot aside and make sure it's correct. So, it's very bad etiquette to splash the pot with the chips, when you are making your action.