Two Plus Two Older Archives - Is this shooting an angle?

A long long time ago (somewhere during the early 1990s) in a galaxy far far away (I don’t live there anymore) I was playing a $4/8 SPREAD LIMIT (capitalized because it is important to the story [for those who don’t know, spread limit $4/8 means you can bet anything from $1 UP TO the limit on each round]) game at Boulder Station (off the Vegas Strip). The game was very loose/aggressive and there were a couple of angle shooters causing a lot of problems.

I was playing a big draw very aggressively and had gotten it heads up on the river. I missed. First player checked. I started to bet since the pot was huge and it was my only way to win. As soon as I put the first $4 in (I am very experienced with chip handling, having spent many years as a Craps dealer) the other guy shoved in his $8. Even though the game is spread limit it is VERY unusual to see other size bets. I pulled my hand full of chips back, leaving only the $4 out there.

The table exploded ... more of the same sort of xxxx that had been coming from the angle shooters. To this day I don’t know what came over me ... why I took that shot. I almost immediately handed the dealer $4 and told him to give it to the guy who won the pot. I apologized profusely. I blushed and stammered and apologized again, saying “I don’t know why I did that. I don’t play that way.”

The table reaction was astounding. “Now that’s class”, for example. The rest of the night I got paid off like you wouldn’t believe. It turned out to be one of my biggest ever wins at $4/8.

FWIW