Is this a raise?
This happened at a home game but I want to know about the rule in a casino.
Player A makes it $100. Player B goes all in for $174. Player C calls $174. Is the betting reopened to player A?
Half the table said yes since it's more than 50% of the raise amount and half the table said No because the 50% rule on applies if someone is forced to make a min raise, ie. if player B accidentally puts in $150 but meant to call then he's FORCED to make it $200. People were arguing back and forth about the 50% rule. Ultimately it was 5-4 that YES the $174 reopened the action to player A. Just curious the rule in the casino
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Just to add another wrinkle: in most casinos two (or more) players can go all in for less than a legal raise but the combination of the two does actually reopen action. For example: Player A bets 100, player B shoves for 160 (a raise of 60, less than the 100 minimum), player C then shoves for 200 (a raise of 40 over player B, again less than 100), player D calls 200. In that case, though the combination of player B and player C amounts to a raise of 100 over player A’s original bet. This is a legal raise and therefore action is reopened for player A.
Just to add another wrinkle: in most casinos two (or more) players can go all in for less than a legal raise but the combination of the two does actually reopen action. For example: Player A bets 100, player B shoves for 160 (a raise of 60, less than the 100 minimum), player C then shoves for 200 (a raise of 40 over player B, again less than 100), player D calls 200. In that case, though the combination of player B and player C amounts to a raise of 100 over player A’s original bet. This is a le
You can look at it as if there's a legal raise somewhere, it reopens the action. So the C 200 shove does that, the B 160 can be "ignored"
