Poker stake rules I
Monday, September 22nd, 2008There are many rules that govern the game of poker and principal among them is the table stakes rule, according to which regulation any given player can start playing a game with a certain stake for each deal and has to play that particular deal with that stake. This rule is an important one and is observed in all casino houses and almost all private games. So, no player is permitted to take away any amount of the dough staked on the table and nor can he add any amount into it. As a result the table stake rules set a fixed limit to how much will be the maximum and minimum value for buy-in for cash poker games and also states that unless a player decides to leave a game altogether and in doing so takes away his entire stake from the game table, he can not remove any portion of the stake. Moreover, gamblers who make a deliberate wrong statement regarding how much they are staking or try to conceal the fact thereby misleading the other players in the game are discouraged and it is binding on every participant of the game to honestly state the amount he has staked if and when asked.
An important thing to remember that poker is the one of those casino gambling games that does not allow ‘going south’. This concept, also notoriously known as ‘ratholing’, can be explained as the tendency in a player to remove a sizeable portion of the big pot he had won so that he can safeguard his interest in future play and may not incur too heavy losses. This attempt to cushion the risk is commonly indulged in by rookie players but unlike many other games of fortune, is disallowed in poker. Therefore anyone who wants to protect his winning in poker games must do so by strategic means of playing safe but not by removing the dough from the table.

