Is this legal ?

Ok I went and played my 1st livetourney this weekend. I was getting crappy azz cards. I look around the table and everyone seemed to be staring at me, so I wait for my cards. I look at my cards. I jump to the edge of my seat and pick up my large $ chips and put them in front of my pile. I smile real big and look very excited. Everyone naturally folds. Believeing I am going all in cause I have the nutts. This lady gets 1st class P O'd. She calls the pit boss on me. He comes over and she tells him what I did. He asks her if I played out of turn... No Did I push my chips into the middle of the table....No. He tells her he believes I did nothing wrong... but asks me not to do it again. Is what I did wrong ?

nothing wrong, but you make see you with the big card in your hand.my friend don t do it again, because you are the one loosing on a chance to win big pot.

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From what i read you did nothing wrong at all........but dont you want someone to call you?

no I did not want to get called I had a 92 off suit I was bluffing them. Is this allowed ? can you use facial and body movement to bluff in a live game?

yes you can bluff.hope to see you at the table

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Originally Posted by timeflight

no I did not want to get called I had a 92 off suit I was bluffing them. Is this allowed ? can you use facial and body movement to bluff in a live game?

Ive played very few live games...so im probably not the best to answer...but the ones i did.....there was plenty of what you talk about.

But to an extent i would imagine.No taunting would be allowed.Obviously

You didnt taunt....did ya?

is taunting showing ? I was the big blind. starting chips was 100. Blinds where at 10 sb 20 bb. all i was doing was protecting my blind.

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Point is that in a live game it's allowed to CHEAT AND TELL LIES... but it's NOT allowed to tell the truth about your hand.
Seen a guy live beeing asked (flop showing A-10-7) "Did you hit your A" - and he answered "Yes - big time".
The one asking folded and the guy showed his A and said "See". Pit boss where called over and his hand where called "DEAD". The one folding won the hand.
Playing live poker - if you show or give away your hand BEFORE SHOWDOWN it's called DEAD and the hand is disqualified.

Had he instead showed a 92 off suite it's called a BLUFF - and thats ok.... :-)

SO - the answer to your question is yes - you are allowed to make use of ANY means when bluffing. Body language is a strong tell as well as bluf.
- you know the term "Talk Poker" - thats when you talk people into a hand where you got them beat.

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Yep I saw a similar thing happen in a televised game. 1 player who had folded preflop reacted so badly after the flop that it gave away the fact that he would have hit the flop..........A player in the hand told him to be quiet and it got out of hand and the pit boss was called in and the original guy was railed for 10 mins and warned that if he didnt pipe down it would be a 20 minute penalty.

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Nothing wrong with what you did time flight. I have gotten people to call preflop by just picking up chips and seemingly perparing myself to enter a pot. People look for tells or what people are at to help make a decdion what to do. Part of the live game is making people think the total opposite of what the truth really is. When you have a big hand you want to appear weak. When your weak strong and when you have nowt at all that you have a monster. You seem to have mastered the latter
Though becareful doing it again as i could dome to bit you on the behind or possible make you a lot of chips