p* $.05/$.10 NLHE 6 max ring game - no all in??

whataboutj · #1 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:20 AM

I have recently started playing in the $.05/$.10 - 6 max cash/ring games on P*. I am confused about the no all in rule. The game is called NLHE & You can bet all the money you have at the table. When you get called and you are heads up the board cards come out without showing the hole cards. Why? It's annoying since there is no more betting that will take place. Can anyone explain why the rule is in place?

For the record the games I have been in are pretty easy to win at as long as you play solid poker and don't "Fall in love" with your hands too much (I'll be starting a seperate thread about that)

Thanks for the help
J

jojobinks · #2 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:22 AM

opening hands when all in is a tv/tournamen thing. in cash games, you don't have to turn up your hand until showdown...or you can much and never open it up at all.

whataboutj · #3 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by jojobinks

opening hands when all in is a tv/tournamen thing. in cash games, you don't have to turn up your hand until showdown...or you can much and never open it up at all.

Interesting. On FTP micro limit cash games the cards get turned up in those situations. Even more interesting is every time after the river in the games I was in on p*'s the cards were turned up. That's why I found/find it annoying - I have no idea where I'm at in the hand until the end.

Thanks for the info JoJo

99%evil · #4 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:27 AM

I thought the "no all-in" was no all-in protection if you lost your connection. In some games if you are in a hand and you lose connection, they consider what you've bet as "all-in" and the hand continues on and you are still int he action, but cannot bet anymore. With no all-in protection, if you play games like unplugging your connection when trying to protect your roll in a questionable hand, -they fold you when you time out.

I think no matter what in a cash game they wait until showdown, only tournies do they turn them up. In cash allows you to muck...so you can reload and no one is the wiser what you went in with.

tastic · #5 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:29 AM

This is my understanding of the 'no all in' on P* too...

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Originally Posted by 99%evil

I thought the "no all-in" was no all-in protection if you lost your connection. In some games if you are in a hand and you lose connection, they consider what you've bet as "all-in" and the hand continues on and you are still int he action, but cannot bet anymore. With no all-in protection, if you play games like unplugging your connection when trying to protect your roll in a questionable hand, -they fold you when you time out.

hachkc · #6 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by jojobinks

opening hands when all in is a tv/tournamen thing. in cash games, you don't have to turn up your hand until showdown...or you can much and never open it up at all.

I believe the mucked cards show up in the hand history though. Tools like PokerAce will also flash them to you on-screen even though the user hasn't flipped them because it reads the hand history.

whataboutj · #7 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:36 AM

Maybe I am confusing two different topics then. "No all in" being no all in protection, which I guess makes sense (thankfully my cable modem is basically stable) and the cards not being turned up in an all in situation. The later topic annoys the hell out of me

On FTP cash games the cards get turned up in an all in HU situation - at least in the micro limit games I have played in

99%evil · #8 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by hachkc

I believe the mucked cards show up in the hand history though. Tools like PokerAce will also flash them to you on-screen even though the user hasn't flipped them because it reads the hand history.

Yeah, you can request hand history from P* and find out in 2 seconds that way as well.

whataboutj · #9 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by hachkc

I believe the mucked cards show up in the hand history though. Tools like PokerAce will also flash them to you on-screen even though the user hasn't flipped them because it reads the hand history.

I need to get Poker Ace & Poker tracker I guess. If nothing else it will bring me to a level field, regarding information, with the majority of the players it seems.

whataboutj · #10 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:41 AM

BTW - is the poker tracker for P* the same software you can get through PSO? I read the review of it on PSO and P* and FTP werenot listed as sites it works with.

Thanks for all the info
J