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Sorry, I don't know anything about poker, but didn't Riker do this all the time on TNG?

• milesvp 7y ago
  He did, and the poker on the show was generally abysmal. But partly for the ‘I’ll see you... and raise you’ prevalence in drama is that it creates a more dramatic situation. The dramatic effect is the very thing that can be taken advantage of in poker, and is why there’s a rule at most professionally run tables that what you claim, on your turn, is what you must do. Once you call, you can no longer raise no matter how much you want to. Though the bigger reason for not allowing it, is that it can really add confusion and slow down the game when a person says call and the next person now has to wait until they’re sure the current asshole isn’t going to say ‘and raise’ before they can act. Oh, and keep in mind that poker is full of assholes who will do all kinds of anti social behavior to gain an edge. So the fact that this is a standard rule really gives some idea as to just how annoying it is to the poker community.