Ethical or Proper Play...

If you were able to read some of the other blogs circulating, you can see that poker have rules and guides (ethical).

As players in the forefront of the game here in the philippines, we should all get ourselves familiar and ready with big tournament rules. Now this is just one opinion and everyone is entitle to theirs. Let's see some of the benefits; we are all aligned with the rules of the game; we have credibility and we can be confident that anywhere we play, we can follow the same rules.

Why do I write this now. I want to make sure that we all are aware of the rules of poker. You decide what can be done and what shouldn't be done...

Examples:

Tournament...

UTG raise the blind and a reraise, 2 more players go in and the UTG goes all in and shows pocket A's. Right or Wrong? Thought behind the action - I didn't want to get a bad beat... In the hand, sure enough, the person who re-raised hand K's and the two callers - AQ and AJ. The A's would have been beat but nobody called.

I know in some games if you expose your hand and you are in that hand, your hand will be dead.

For me, that play is a complete no no because instead of having 3 less players, we still had them to deal with! It is a tournament after all and the idea is to knock people out.

Tournament...

After a couple of hands, I raise x8 of the big blind. I get one caller and he wanted to check it to the river before calling. Of course I say yes. It's a friendly game. Is it right or wrong? For me it is wrong. Same reason as above. In this hand - He would hit top pair with a Q kicker. Me... trips.

4 players - One player goes all in after the flop and he says I have two pair. No problem (is this still good?) the callers still bet at each other. Finally, show of hands.

One had top pair that had a runner, runner straight after calling a pot size bet by the 3rd player. The 3rd player had 2 pairs as well.

You all decide what you think is right but it is our responsibility to make sure that our players know the rules so we don't get into trouble should we play in a different tournament.

Good game.