Live poker " Protecting your cards "

candi

In Response to Re: Live poker " Protecting your cards ":

In Response to Re: Live poker " Protecting your cards " : Can't have a chip on her cards? Why not? She HAS to protect her cards, instead of leaving them, as she did, wholly unprotected, particularly in one of the 2 most susceptible seats for that error - Seat 9.  She can protect her hand in any number of ways, & she failed in all of them. She does not need a chip to protect her cards, she can..... 1) Use a card-protector. 2) Hold her hands on top of her cards, exactly as you or most other sensible players would. 3) It's not usually obligatory to move your chips over the line when All-In - simply stating "I am all-in", verbally acknowledged by the Dealer, suffices more often than not. Serial shovers with mountains of chips would slow the game unacceptably if moving a huge stack back & forth every few hands. So she can place her hand UNDER her stack, whether it is across the bet line or not. 4) Custom & practice allows, when moving all-in, leaving a single (lowest-denom) chip behind, on top of one's hand, to protect it. She failed to do all or any of those. Many of the Sky Poker players are or will be newbies to Live Poker, & to my mind, it's very important that they understand the convention in this matter.  It's one of the few Rules of Poker upon which ALL authorities ageree, particularly the TDA, & Robert's Rules of Poker, which states clearly & simply..... "You must protect your own hand at all times. Your cards may be protected with your hands, a chip, or other object placed on top of them. If you fail to protect your hand, you will have no redress if it becomes fouled or the dealer accidentally kills it." I'm not sure, considering all that, how the Dealer becomes a "moron", & we are supposed to sympathise with the player!
Posted by Tikay10

Hi Tikay,

I have only ever played online poker and so live poker is a completely new arena to me. 
 Everything you have said makes sense and  the video link in Aaron`s post highlights the importance of making sure your cards are protected. It can mean the difference between `life or death` in a poker tournament and can be a very costly mistake to a player who doesn`t protect their cards.
 Thank you  xx

Eyeman

I am a virtual newbie to live poker, and I know to protect my hand with a chip/protector/hands/rhinoceros. If you're playing in a $10,000 tournament, you really ought to know this by now, if not - well it's an expensive lesson.

Machka

I completely believe that it's the players fault.  I've only ever played a few times live and I know to protect my cards at all time.  You would have thought anyone in the WSOP ME would have been around poker long enough to know this.

She's all in and sat with her cards out from, hands completely off the table.  That's crazy.

I swear as the dealer reaches across to muck her cards she looks at his hands as it happens, pauses... and then says something!