That’s to prevent you from gleaning information from your opponent’s reaction and then modifying your action. If you announce a call, you can’t subsequently announce a raise.
If you put chips in the pot to raise, you can’t go back to your stack for a second helping. Īll bets-call or raise-must be atomic actions. But even Rounders, generally considered the best poker movie ever made, steps in it a few times. As refreshing as it was to see Bond step in to the modern world by trading baccarat for hold ‘em, the film gets almost as much wrong as it gets right. Fair warning, James Bond fans, I’m going to beat up on Casino Royale a lot. If you’re a poker player it’s a thrill to see your favorite game up on the big screen-except when they get it maddeningly, mind-bogglingly wrong.
Back to writing about writing! But still riding the poker high …
