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2 Situations Confusion on verbal raise/Playing chips from a rack

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Stuart Murray:
For the record I like the no playing out of a rack rule, it helps to maintain player transparency, I think it realistically solves more issues than it creates, especially with obscured chips, perhaps rows only being 18 chips instead of 20 etc etc

Spence:
I'm thinking that those who've been in the business for much more than 20 years would be better to answer the question as to what happened in underground clubs and similar venues but as far as I know this came about from casinos who in the 80's had a huge crackdown on table security. 

This was a time when casinos started being more transparent with their practices and had to institute a number of regulations.  You can't play BlackJack out of a rack at any casino that I know of.  Any table game for that matter.  It's all about table game security and my guess is that it translated into the Poker world the same way.

Nick C:
I was going over some old posts and thought that this one was worthy of a re-post and possibly some answers to why we can not play from a rack, or racks?

My guess is, some floorperson transferred from the "pit" or other table games to the poker room, brought that rule with them.

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