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That is cheap angle shooting and the bet would count in any casino in the country.

In a home game, however, you have to make accomodations. If I really believed that the person was thinking and not angle shooting, I would push to let him take his bet back -- especially if he was generally a big donator to the game. We don't want to chase him off, now, do we?

Probably the compromise I would end up with is that the rules say (sound good and confidant, just like back in the days when I was a professional umpire) that he should forfeit all the chips, but, since this is a friendly game, we will allow him to pull back half of them. This is obviously not a "correct" ruling by any standard (she's a little bit pregnant), but will probably mollify people enough that we can get back to playing.