Understand What String Bets are in Poker

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Another topic for poker etiquette is what's called a string bet. Now string bets can be used to gauge the reactions of other players at the table, when you are trying to either get a read off of them, whether or not they have a strong hand or maybe you think they are trying to bluff at a hand. So, lets look at a situation where a string bet would happen and why it's illegal. Or very bad poker etiquette. So if you look at the board, the hands dealt out, we're in the middle of the hand, the flops out; the first three cards, and the player in seat three has made a bet of two dollars. A string bet would be me coming out and saying "I call and I raise." That is known as a string bet. My first verbal declaration of my action was "I call." That means I cannot raise at that point. I have to call the two dollars, and my action is over. Another string bet would be, if I put out the two dollars, and I don't verbally declare anything, and I go back to my chip stack grab more chips, to come out with the intention of raising. Now, this is also very bad poker etiquette because I've put the two dollars out there to make the call, and I cannot go back to my stack at this point to grab more chips to make a raise. The reason being so, because now, this is when if I'm trying to do this I can look around the table, look at the players and try to get a read of whether or not they were trying to bluff. One instance where you can go back to your chip stack is if he's bet two dollars and I verbally declare that "I raise." Now I can either say that "I raise" or "I raise ten dollars." So I can come out with the two, and now I can go back to my chip stack and grab two five dollar chips, finish the raise of ten dollars and this is not a string bet. So be careful when you are calling a raise or calling a bet when you mean to raise, make sure that you verbally declare your actions, so that you are not calling for a string bet.

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