Home game ruling

[Worrots]

Home game tournament.

Late arriving player sits down in the BB. Folded to the CO who raises. BB calls. CO has BB covered. I’m sitting across the table with a good view of the action.

Flop comes K-9-8. BB bets out, CO raises, BB reraises, CO says “I’m all in” and gestures towards the pot. BB says “Okay”, turns over bottom two pair, and nods to the dealer seated between the two of them. CO turns over KK for top set and no one improves on the turn or river.

CO counts out his chips and announces the amount. BB gets a confused look on his face and claims that CO was all in when CO “called on the flop.” “You said you were all in; you didn’t say raise.” Claims that he couldn’t see CO’s stack on the other side of the dealer and thought that CO was just calling BB's reraise.

The tournament director & lovely hostess rules that BB called CO’s all-in raise and moves the chips over. BB pouts in front of the TV for the rest of the evening.

Correct ruling?

Should I have argued that by exposing his cards BB had actually killed his hand to try and keep him in the game? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]