One chip call

Raise. He was not ambiguously putting one chip into the pot which is the reason for the oversized chip call rule. He already had money in the pot to call, no chip was necessary to call. By putting in a chip large enough to make a raise indicates a raise.

This is the Ask ME Anything forum, where people host threads for folks to ask them questions about their area of expertise, not a forum for people to ask any random question. Try the casino and cardroom poker forum, where they discuss rulings, etc.

That said, this is a pretty clear raise to the value of the chip.

I would rule it a raise.

But the reality is it can be ruled a call as well. Especially if the player says "I need some more smaller chips so this is just a call".

There have been times when I have pulled back my BB and then put out a single chip to get change. But each time I have done that I have said "Call" before I put out the large chip. Just in case it would be interpreted as a raise...

BB doesn’t have to put ANY chips out to call since nobody has raised. He simply could check. Therefore putting a larger chip out should be ruled a raise.

The intent of the one chip rule is to resolve ambiguity. Putting out a single chip larger than the current action could be a raise, but it also could be a call by a player who doesn’t have sufficient small chips in his stack to put out the correct amount. The rule in such situations is that, absent a verbal declaration, it’s a call. Suppose someone put out a single chip post flop after action checked to them. Is there any question that it’s a bet equal to the chip amount (unless a lesser amount is verbalized)? The BB is in a similar spot to that. In either case, the player is not facing action and could check. Putting out a chip seems clearly to be a bet in either case.

Calling isn't an option for the BB. Their options are check or raise. This "can be ruled a call" in the same way you can be given a speeding ticket for driving 50 in a 55 - by the enforcer being clueless.

This is 10000% a raise and arguing otherwise is nonsense.

I miswrote it. I probably said "check" when I put out the big chip and wanted change. Here unless the player said "check" I doubt it would ever be ruled a check.

I think it would need an objection from a player who said "He never said raise!" and then a ruling from the Floor. But still I doubt it would be ruled a check given chips were pulled back.

I do think it would be interesting if the Dealer either said "thats a check" or if the dealer didn't say or do anything. Then it would be up to the other players in the hand to either try to get it to be a check or the BB to try to get it to be a raise (without objections). In any case I think the Floor would have to come over and decide it as a check.

I think the TDA rule says it's a raise if the initial chip is enough to make the check/call.

If forced to go by the rules, it's a raise.

But this is one of the few times I think it would be better for the dealer to just ask the BB his intention, if no one has yet acted on the raise. If he only meant to call, let him call.

Standard interpretation, definitely a raise. See TDA 46C and 61. There's a high likelihood BB thinks it's been raised to him and hasn't verified the action to him, like a 1/2 game and thinks it's raised to 5, or something analogous in a tournament.

Obviously an obvious raise (unless modified by a verbal "Check"). If I wanted to get small denomination chips I would have put out the large chip as my big blind. No ambiguity there at all.