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Posted by: Jack Daniels at December 24, 2006, 9:42 am

Topic: A general poker question Forum: Card Chat

Well, like everything else in poker, there are no simple answers here. As far as legality of declaring your hand, the general answer is what ET (phone home...lol) posted above. However, tournament rules always take precedence over that. For example, in the National Heads-up Championship, the rules specifically state that a person contemplating calling an all in bet may expose their hand without it being killed in an attempt to get a reaction. Those are the rules. Jamie Gold never actually exposed or said what his exact hands were while in the middle of a hand (at least not in the footage I've seen). He did skirt the rules some, but the tournament director confirmed for everyone (players, commentators, and spectators alike) that, like it or not, Jamie was working within the rules. Again, house rules.

As far as betting out of turn, it is poor ettiquette (sp?) and should be dealt with. Now it would be different if he was UTG, as minraising PF (lol) is basically just putting a stradle on the hand and is perfectly legal. All you are doing then is raising blind (opposed to calling blind). But again that would be UTG. If you act out of turn, your actions are typically binding, but again house rules should decide. I hate to say it, but if your friends are playing like knuckleheads in a home game and the ones in charge refuse to do anything about it or are making insane decisions, then maybe it's time to find another group to play poker with.

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