Correct ruling at Casino Niagara?

[DZgroundhog]

I'm a bit of a stranger to casino no limit games but I wasn't waiting for 25 players to bust out of any of the limit games so I got on a 1-2 NL table last night.

Hand is heads-up at the river between seats 5 and 9. Seat 5 checks, seat 9 bets $30, seat 5 announces "Raise" and puts in $55. For whatever reason, he left three $1 chips behind and said he "needed them." But the dealer told him that he had to put them in because he announced he was raising but couldn't make a full raise which then required him to go all-in for $58. That made sense to me and pretty much everybody else at the table and seat 5 ended up folding.

But then 9's buddy in seat 7 starts going off on the dealer about how he's completely wrong and that seat 9 should've had to pull his $25 raise back because he was required to raise $30 and that his bet should've been reduced to a call. And then seat 5 agrees with him and says that he should've known that was the rule and called the floor, but at that point the cards had already been shuffled so he just dropped it. Eventually the dealer admitted that he might have made a mistake, but nobody bothered to do anything at that point.

The weirdest thing about this whole hand is that seat 7 went after his buddy in seat 9 and sort of tried to make him lose a pot. These two assjacks had been softplaying each other all night and it got to the point where they would just flip their cards over and check it down anytime they got heads-up. Once there were five or six limpers and seat 7 raises to $17 from the SB. BB folds, his buddy in seat 9 calls and everybody else folds. Then one of them says "okay, time to check it down" and they flip their hands up and the dealer just deals out all five community cards and ships the pot over to the winner like that's totally acceptable. I made some comment about blatant collusion to the other half of the table, but nobody else said anything. I would've had the floor over there in a heartbeat, but seat 9 was averaging a $100 buy-in every 20 minutes and was on his fifth one at that point, so I guess I'd rather have him keep most of his chips so he can lose them to me instead of his friend.

DZ