vinnie
Legend
Silver Level
The most funny thing I keep hearing is people complaining they lose because there are many "bad" players who get lucky, I wonder if they think they will get better results against "good" players.
Yesterday some guy kept complaining because someone made a check/raise, arguing it was bad manners and that he would get shot if he did it on a live room .
I have heard of some old games where check/raising was considered bad form and/or not allowed. If you read some of the older books on poker, the authors will often mention this when talking about check/raising. It was more of a house rule, and never an official rule. The authors advise you to be aware of the house rules, but if there is no rule they say there are perfectly valid spots for it.
These days, it's considered a perfectly valid and normal part of a person's strategy. And, I doubt anyone would have ever gotten shot in a live game, even where it was against the rules. I suspect the actual punishment would have been along the lines of refusing the raise (declaring it a call) and a warning.
Edit: Google the term "sandbagging" for good hits about this. Here is one hit https://books.google.com/books?id=y...F#v=onepage&q=poker sandbagging rules&f=false
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