Re: Tricky decision! \"I put you all-in\"
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Seat 1 is first to act and checks. Seat 4 leans back and announces "I put him all in" immediately seat 8 announces call and starts pushing all his chips out. Seat 4 immediately starts objecting saying that he only meant to bet as much as Seat 1 had. He was facing seat 1 when he said it (seat 4 always faces seat 1).
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A lot of this depends on how and how quickly seat 8 acts. If seat 8 announces "call" and then deliberately starts putting chips in the pot, the smaller amount is what he is calling. If he announces "call" and at the same time pushes his entire stack in this could be a gross misunderstanding of the bet size which allows him to now act on the correct bet size.
This decision is much closer than most of the posteers here are indicating. Without further info I am inclined to say it is a call of the smaller amount, but I can construct a set of circumstances where he would be allowed to raise all in.
One fo the reasons working on the floor is sometimes called "walking the floor" is the floor should walk around his section and have a good feel for who is playing at the tables so he is better positioned to make a ruling based on what he judges to be the intent of the player.
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