Re: I bluff in a tourney, other players offer cash for him to call
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a few things (could be wrong but i don't think so)
1) Isn't a hand considered dead once a player shows his cards?
2) One player per hand. This a rule everywhere.
3) Poker Etiquette(sp?) really states that only players in the hand are supposed to speak at the table (although every home game breaks this rule i suppose
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1) Depends on house rules, many cardrooms say your hand is dead if you expose one or more cards. However many also say you can show your cards before a call if it's headsup (including tourneys, I actually still think the WSOP has this rule). Some, I've only seen this at NL at Showboat in AC, allow you to show either one or both cards at any time in a hand (regardless of number of people left)which I thought would be completely stupid to do. I couldn't believe it, but I heard it directly from the pokerroom director the only night I've been there (about a week after they opened). But either way, before a home tourney the host should lay out these kinds of rules.
2. Yes, they clearly were breaking or at least somehow infringing on this rule and should be penalized.
3. Yeah everyone speaks but no one should speak in violation of rule number 2 which they clearly did.
Overall, it's a tough spot, you don't want to give your hand away by speaking up. If I were you I'd talk to who runs the game and get him to inform the others that such BS won't be tolerated and if it happens again the offending party forfeits his/her buyin. Those asshles could've changed the outcome of the whole tourney.
Good luck,
Matt
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