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Name bigfatbastard
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| What do you do about Slowrollers? | 2010 05 01 01:14 am | What do you say or do to slowrollers? Situation (down to last two players in hand - call them UTG and Button): Action on previous streets was that UTG would make a bet, and Button would call. On the river the board reads thus:    - - It goes check - check and the Button says "I just have a Queen" UTG says "with what?" Button says "with nothing" and shows his hand (no hearts, just a naked Q). UTG waits, ums and ahs, looks at his cards again (hiding them still), waits a bit more and just as the dealer is about to move the pot towards the Button, THEN the UTG opens up one card the  to reveal the third nuts. Okay, maybe he missed the fact that there were four cards to a flush on board (begin considering "benefit of the doubt"). . . . UNTIL . . . he reveals the other card, the  . He knows he is up against a lone pair, and slow-rolls a flush, or even if he missed that there were four hearts on board, a set of Jacks. What do you make of the "with what?" question, and the slow-roll in this situation? What do you say, if anything? What do you do, if anything? Perhaps this should be a poll question. BFB |
| Another one of those "what's your ruling" threads! | 2010 04 08 11:13 pm | A situation came up at a live tournament "the other day" as it were: Five players remaining, blinds are 3K/6K. It goes fold, fold, and then the button raises it up to 17K. This is where a strange and unfortunate thing happened. The dealer pulled folded the cards in, accidentally taking with them the button's cards as well. It was a pure accident, just "one of those things." The SB folds more or less simultaneously, but as it comes to the BB, the button exclaims "where's my cards?" drawing the attention of all at the table that he had no cards. The BB looks up, waits for a few seconds, realises that he is the only one with "live" cards at the table and calls for a formal ruling. If you are the TD, what do you do? What is your ruling? btw: This is not a blame game situation, so for the sake of this particular situation forget about the dealer's actions, they were purely accidental and not (really) relevant to the eventual outcome. (there is a cause and effect, but ignore that, and just concentrate on the actual ruling itself - okay!). Simply, what happens to the chips on the table . . . . who gets what? BFB |
| Short stack dilemma | 2010 02 12 10:16 pm | Hi all, wanted an opinion or two about this situation, if I may. Just lost a coin flip and am left with a mere 4K, blinds 1K/500. (details are unimportant, this is a few [two or three] hands later). I am in the BB and the aggressive button looks at my stack and makes it 4500 to go. Button's stack is above average, and even though he is fairly new to the table he has raised a lot and shown little. The Big-stacked SB makes the call, all others have folded. I look down at 76off . . . what to do? As it comes to me and I am deciding what to do, the TD steps up to announce that the blinds are going up next hand to 1400/700. Do I call off my last chips and take whatever comes. . . ? If so, do I have to do this just for value? Another reason? What reasons are there not to either call or not call? Or do I fold and cross my fingers for the next two cards in SB? What do you do . . . and why? BFB |
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| Ruling question - Was it a raise? | 2009 12 05 10:18 pm | Hi guys, Small buy-in tournament, no big deal, but a situation came up that I thought was mis-ruled, though I may have been a bit biased considering I was involved in the hand itself. Need some external and unbiased input. Blinds are, I think, about 100-200 (but not really a factor). On the turn: Player X bets out $1100 chips (1 x $1000, 1 x $100). Player Q silently puts out 2 x $1000 chips, and as dealer gives him his change and more-or-less simultaneously goes to turn and burn, Player Q holds his hand up and says, "no wait a minute," points at what were his two one-thousand chips and says "but I raised!" A minor dispute initiates, and the Tournament director is called over who asks Player Q whether he meant to raise. Player Q now states that, yes, he "meant" to raise. TD makes a ruling . . . . Before I reveal that ruling, what do you think? What is the correct ruling here? Was it a raise, was it a call, was it something else? BFB |
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