No raise allowed?
 

***** Hand History for Game 2840277873 *****
$100 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 07, 05:31:42 EDT 2005
Table Table 37693 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Alloutbully ( $85.70 )
Seat 2: PokerApex ( $92.89 )
Seat 3: MONEYTREE808 ( $43.73 )
Seat 4: La_Nicksage ( $118.40 )
Seat 7: FourClover01 ( $119.55 )
Seat 9: malika913 ( $174.95 )
Seat 8: Soapmakers ( $102.25 )
Seat 6: grandmama66 ( $96.50 )
Seat 5: FoSaChys_Sis ( $46.50 )
Seat 10: RivrRatFAFA ( $29 )
RivrRatFAFA posts small blind [$0.50].
Alloutbully posts big blind [$1].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Soapmakers [ 7d 7h ]
>You have options at Three-Table(482205) Table #1 Table!.
PokerApex folds.
MONEYTREE808 calls [$1].
La_Nicksage folds.
FoSaChys_Sis folds.
grandmama66 folds.
FourClover01 folds.
Soapmakers calls [$1].
>You have options at Three-Table(482205) Table #1 Table!.
>You have options at Three-Table(482205) Table #1 Table!.
malika913 folds.
RivrRatFAFA calls [$0.50].
Alloutbully checks.
>You have options at Three-Table(482205) Table #1 Table!.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, Ac, 7s ]
>You have options at Three-Table(482205) Table #1 Table!.
RivrRatFAFA bets [$1].
Alloutbully calls [$1].
MONEYTREE808 calls [$1].
>You have options at Three-Table(482205) Table #1 Table!.
Soapmakers raises [$4].
RivrRatFAFA calls [$3].
Alloutbully calls [$3].
MONEYTREE808 calls [$3].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3s ]
RivrRatFAFA checks.
Alloutbully checks.
MONEYTREE808 checks.
Soapmakers bets [$15].
RivrRatFAFA is all-In [$24]
Alloutbully calls [$24].
MONEYTREE808 calls [$24].
Soapmakers calls [$9].

The only options I was given was to call or fold. I understand that the all-in raise by RiverRatFAFA was not double my bet, so it wasn't a "standard" raise, but shouldn't I have been given a chance to make another play, rather than simply calling?

He actually didn't raise you since it wasn't double the current bet, so as the person who already placed the current bet, you can't re-raise yourself. I believe that the others at the table have the option of "under-raising" (which is an option that popped up at one site once), but you can't since you already bet and were not raised.

Ignoring the numbers for the time being, if there is no raise after your bet, you are not given the option to raise yourself (obviously). So this becomes a question of what is a raise?

I *thought* that in a tourney, a raise was definied as a full bet $15 in this cash), while in a cash game, a raise only needed to be half of a bet ($7.50 in this case). Obviously I'm wrong about this, based on the option you were (not) given.

I wonder if this is site specific and if a different site would have handled the exact same situation differently.

I thought the standard of "raise" was defined as equal or greater to the last bet??

player 1 bets $10
Player two rasies $20 to $30 total
Player 3 wants to raise... it has to be at least $20 more (to $50+ total).

Correct.... but for an all-in situation, I know there are some situations where half of a legal raise opens the action when it comes around again.

I thought so anyway.

I'm pretty sure that, in limit, half a bet constitutes a raise in this situation. In NL, however, it needs to be a full raise for you to be able to reraise. Don't quote me on that. I don't have time, but look at cardplayer. There are a couple recent articles dealing with this issue.

That's what it is! Forget my tourney/cash game crap. The difference is limit/no limit.

For me, those kind of go hand in hand, as I usually play NL tourneys and limit cash games.