This happened to me in a live game at the local casino yesterday:
Tournament final table, I am heads up with some other guy. I have app. 200.000 chips, he maybe 400.000. Blinds are 5k/10k. We both call, so 20k in the pot. Flop comes and I have a double gutshot. I bet 25.000.
The other guy pushes the exact amount of 25.000 worth of chips over the line and says "Wait, wait" to the dealer (which I didn’t hear btw, but let’s just assume he said it). Then, after a pause, he says "I’m all-in" which surprises me, and I told the dealer that it should be considered just a call. Of course, I wanted to see the turn card for 25.000, and not be all-in with a draw here. Dealer is unsure, calls another dealer who is in charge of the tourney and that guy allows the all-in.
How do you guys see this as far as the rules are concerned? From my POV, the only thing he could have said would have been "raise" or "all-in", anything else does not matter, right? And it doesn’t matter whether he said "Wait, wait" before or after pushing the 25.000 chips in, correct?
Tournament final table, I am heads up with some other guy. I have app. 200.000 chips, he maybe 400.000. Blinds are 5k/10k. We both call, so 20k in the pot. Flop comes and I have a double gutshot. I bet 25.000.
The other guy pushes the exact amount of 25.000 worth of chips over the line and says "Wait, wait" to the dealer (which I didn’t hear btw, but let’s just assume he said it). Then, after a pause, he says "I’m all-in" which surprises me, and I told the dealer that it should be considered just a call. Of course, I wanted to see the turn card for 25.000, and not be all-in with a draw here. Dealer is unsure, calls another dealer who is in charge of the tourney and that guy allows the all-in.
How do you guys see this as far as the rules are concerned? From my POV, the only thing he could have said would have been "raise" or "all-in", anything else does not matter, right? And it doesn’t matter whether he said "Wait, wait" before or after pushing the 25.000 chips in, correct?
That player then starts abusing me for even insisting that he was string-betting (well truth to be told, that guy did not even know what a string bet was, and earlier he had to admit he didn’t even know what the "bubble" stands for … go figure). Anyway, I got so fed up that I didn’t want to play on with that idiot and said, what the hell, I call. Didn’t make my hand and lost. No big deal, difference between 1st and 2nd was $200 only.
I told the dealers that they had just shot themselves in the foot – no more tips for the dealers from me for the next 5 years or until I have saved $200 worth of tips.
