[IMTheWalrus8]

Sunday morning at the Taj AC, and I'm playing in the $100 buy-in MTT.

Seat 1 raises, and Seat 7 reraises all-in. Seat 1 is thinking about it, playing with his chips, looking at his cards.

While this guy is thinking about it, Seat 7 nonchalantly shows his pocket aces to Seat 1. For a moment I thought I had missed a call or fold, but no. One of the players says that results in a penalty, and the floor is called over.

Meantime, pocket aces says "I didn't want him to catch a flush or something."

Floor comes over, and says that it's a 10-minute penalty if he's called. Otherwise there's no penalty. One guy at the table said that the hand should be mucked, but that wasn't the ruling.

So Seat 1 folds his pocket 9s.

First of all, this guy actually didn't want to take the odds to double up in the first hour of a tournament with pocket aces. I was talking to someone at the table after we both busted out, and he said he didn't want to take that chance either.

WTF? How many people don't want to "take a chance" with pocket aces in an MTT? Especially if you're getting in preflop?

It also seems like a strange rule - you are only penalized for showing your cards if you're called. I didn't ask if this is the case for ring games, but since there isn't a 10-minute penalty in ring games I wonder what the ruling would be.

I'm a relative B&M newbie, but that is the strangest thing I've seen so far.

And my god is the Taj a fishtank. I've been playing the Trop and that was our first visit to the Taj.