I was just playing in a tournament a casino whose rules are that a min-raise has to be double the previous bet, not double the previous raise like in most places.
Example: 200->700->1200 is allowed in every other place I’ve played. There it would have to be 200-> 700->1400.
Just wondering how common this is.
In the Resident Evil series, it isn't uncommon to encounter locked doors. Some may need a certain key or key item, while others display a message akin to "the door is locked from the other side". This tells the player that at some later point, we will return to the door from the other side and unlock it. These doors often serve as shortcuts, for example, the door in the first zombie hallway in REmake that connects to the plant hallway, which you can unlock after you access the plant hallway with the armor key.
Of course, if one of these doors is sort of off the beaten path, so to speak, you may occasionally come to one of these doors from the "correct" side before you ever came to it from the "wrong" side. This is not uncommon or strange.
What makes this door peculiar is that, as far as I have discovered, this is the only "locked from the other side" door in the classic fixed camera games that is, in the normal course of gameplay, impossible to access from the "wrong" side before the "correct" side. So for all intents and purposes, there is no point to it being "locked" at all.
The door in the first pic is in the evidence room and leads to the west office on the first floor of the RPD in Re2. As people who have played the game know, Marvin kicks you out of the west office and locks its other door behind you after a cutscene. That door makes sense as a "locked from the other side" door because you can unlock it once you reach the west office from the other side, and it serves as a shortcut. However, the door in the picture serves no gameplay purpose being locked because, as the other door to the west office is locked, you can never access the evidence room door from its locked side. You might say the reason why it's locked is because someone locked Marvin in there once they knew he was infected. This seems dubious to me, however, because the other door to the evidence room is already locked behind a diamond key door.
Now for posterity's sake, I will admit that I thought the door in picture 2 was also like this, however while typing this I realized that that is not the case and I played through to confirm, and captured picture 2 and 3. Finding this message does require a convoluted series of steps that most people probably wouldn't do on their first playthrough.
Yesterday I was in a tournament and was big blind with the blinds at 200-400. Guy in middle position is the only caller and I check my option. I check on the flop as well, my opponent throws a single 1000 chip and I fold.
The guy sitting next to my opponent told him that since he didn’t say “1000” that I could have called for 400 since one chip means the minimum bet. My understanding is that when someone leads out with a single chip, the bet is the value of the chip, and that the one chip rule only applies to calling someone else’s bet. I didn’t say anything because I don’t like to antagonize people but I think he was incorrect. Is he?
Theoretically you are taking the chips off of the table, lessening the potential amount you can lose. If we take it to the extreme, you could tip your whole stack minus $1 and call for basically free.
I played in a NLH tournament yesterday. I don’t remember the blinds for this hand but let’s just say it was 1000/2000. A couple people limp, and a guy says “I raise to 4,000 on top” and put 6000 chips out. I feel like if verbal is binding, then once “I raise to 4000” was uttered, that’s what the bet should have been and adding stuff after is like verbal string betting. If he said “raise 4000” instead of to 4000 I would feel differently. I don’t know how strict verbal is though.
The dealer accepted the 6000 though and I didn’t say anything because I was folding either way but I’m curious what other people would think