In poker, is it cheating to hide your chips in your pockets?

Question

In poker, is it cheating to hide your chips in your pockets?

Answer 1

Poker is played as table stakes.  What you have on the table can be gambled.  What is in your pocket can not be bet.

If you took chips from the table and put them in your pocket, then that is called rat-holing and the house will make you place those chips on the table or you will be asked to leave.

If you just happen to have chips in your pocket, that is ok.

Answer 2

Yes, your chips must always be visible, and must be counted upon request of another player.

Answer 3

Just about every card room I play in, you play for table stakes, if it isn't on the table when the first card of a hand is delt, you can't play it.  It isn't cheating to have chips in a ring game in your pocket, but you wont be able to play them in a hand if they aren't on the table. In tournaments, it is cheating though.

Answer 4

Yes it can be. I play a lot of free poker at local bars, and someone did that. They got kicked out. I would not do it.

Answer 5

i dont think so...i 've never heard of anyone doing that! :p

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

All chips must be on the table and visible at all times.  Higher value chips should be kept in front of the lower values, and you should keep each value separate from each other.

In a cash game, you can keep chips somewhere else in some card rooms, but you can't bring them out during a hand.  For example, say you buy $200 in chips, but only want to play with $100 at a time.  Depending on the card room, you could keep the second $100 separate. If you do that, and someone raises to $100 when you're down to $60, you could only call $60.  You wouldn't be able to pull another $40 out so you can call.  If you lose, you could get your other $100 after the hand is over.

In a tournament, you can't do that.  If you try, you'll either get a penalty, where you have to sit out X minutes or X orbits around the table, or you'll get disqualified from the tourney.

Answer 8

No, it's not cheating, as long as they are your chips.  Just like it's not cheating to bet big on a hand you know will lose just to scare the other players out of the game.

Answer 9

It is cheating, becuase sometimes a players bet is based, in part, on how much his opponent has left in play.

Answer 10

uhm... yeah.

you can't sandbag or you are cheating. everyone else keeps the chips visible so as to let the other players know when you're getting low on funds.

Answer 11

YES!!!

Answer 12

yes!

Answer 13

yup