Legality question at the table |
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Posted Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:20 am GMT by General Sal
I was there with Adam and Carson as this unfolded on an 8/16 table. Flop is K Q x x. The next card to come out on the river is also an x. Early position bettor bets out $16. The middle position guy raises to $32. The button guy folds. The early position guy considers for a moment... (hey Adam and Carson... remember that fish guy at the table sitting next to Adam? This was he.) So, the early position bettor ponders for a moment... then the guy on the button says, "I'll pay you eight to call." The early position guy calls. The raiser turns over K 9. Top pair... ok kicker. The fish has a queen pair. After the pot is pushed to the winner, the button man pays eight dollars to the caller.
So, does any of this "dealmaking" sound kinda fishy?
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Posted Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:38 am GMT by JimTheBullet
Sounds rotten to the core to me. The whole point of making a bet is that it puts a decision on the players still in the pot. When you bet on the end everybody wants to know what cards you have - it is just a question of whether one (or more) of them has the guts to put his (not anybody else's) money where his mouth is. If this kind of play is allowed then a bluff would never work - even in no limit. You could bet $200 into a $50 pot and the other 9 people on the table could club together to allow one guy to call it. If I was the guy who raised on the end there I would have cried foul and carried on crying foul even after I had taken down the pot.
Posted Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:07 am GMT by ORGrinder
i agree... i'd have to question the rules of play at whatever casino this was if this kind of action is allowed at a table. i'd likely choose to stay away from this casino in the future if this kind of behavior was allowed.
Posted Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:13 pm GMT by General Sal
I'm not gonna say which casino it is... but let's just say that it's a major casino. Besides, I think in any poker room sometimes "questionable" activities are addressed on the spot only if someone says something.
Posted Thu Feb 19, 2004 6:35 pm GMT by JohnnyCache
If they were head up, I'd just laugh, but if there were other people in the game, they should've proably gave that guy a little fish-eye over that . . . I would have let it go if the dealer didn't care tho. . .
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