Re: declaring all-in in a limit game
A couple of years ago girlfriend is playing 15/30 and on the river is head up with this guy and it goes bet-raise-reraise-reraise-reraise and now the guy pushes about three stacks ($300 or so) into the pot and she says call and pushes her chips in. Normally there is no problem and the action stands since most people are a little bit honorable but now the guy realizes he is up against the nuts (stakes were around 15/30) and he pulls the big stacks back and says "just kidding". Floorman comes over and says he can't enforce an invalid raise so the guy gets to keep his money except for the last reraise.
Today a shift manager from another card club said he would rule the action stands but acknowledged he wouldn't be on firm ground after I told him about what happened to girlfriend at the other club.
This hits home because a couple of days ago I'm playing NL with this same guy who ripped off my girlfriend and after a few limpers BTF I put in a big raise and most fold but now one player is thinking about calling and this same POS who's not even in the hand tells the guy he "shouldn't call me I have a huge pair blah blah blah". After the guy folds I lay into the POS saying "You should keep your mouth shut when you're not in the hand and BTW I'll never forgive you for what you did to my girlfriend two years ago" and the table gets silent since usually I don't get into arguments and they may be thinking its some jealousy/sexual type thing but now I quickly tell the table the story above and say only someone dishonorable would do such a thing and the guy shuts up for twenty minutes which is good for him and for us since we had twenty minutes of him keeping his mouth shut which is the next best thing to heaven.
~ Rick
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