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Anyone else notice Funston's string bets and the fact that nobody called him on it? At one point he actually said "I'll see your.... and raise....". Maybe they felt bad for him, but I would have called it out. For 10k, I would expect someone to know what they are doing.

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It was a very poorly run tournament.

On the flip side of that scenario, my friend, maybe midway through the tournament, accidentally string raised. He was short stacked and had one stack of one denomination and one stack of another. He went all-in without saying so - he just moved the stack of bigger denominations in, then went back for the smaller denominations. He realized as soon as he did it that he screwed up.

The thing is, it seemed like the other players were going to let it slide, but a guy who had just sat down at the table (hadn't even been dealt a hand yet), called him on it. The other players, while understanding, obviously, that it was an illegal string bet, got pissed at the guy because he wasn't even in the hand. Even Men Nguyen told the guy to shut it.

The floor was called and when my friend was asked if he string bet, he said yes and pulled the smaller stack back with no argument.

In the end, it was an effective bet, since everyone knew he was pushing after the flop, anyway. The other two or three players already in the hand folded.

Thought it was funny that everyone got pissed at the "nit," while my friend was the only one who didn't care, since he knew he made a mistake.