[Assani Fisher]

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all you people saying OP is scum are idiots. like the basketball analogy, it's like a player got a call in his favor and didn't say anything about it.

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Basketball is not a good analogy. Golf is a better one. In golf, you're expected to call your own fouls. I think that in poker, it's expected that you don't accept a pot that you know doesn't belong to you.

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I am not a golfer at all, so forgive my ignorance...

But in golf, don't you keep your own scorecard by yourself and then turn it in at the end?

If thats the case, you're totally wrong. Poker has a referee(the dealer) there the whole time to make judgments and even has a backup ref(the floor). In that regard, it is NOT like golf but is instead like the other sports.

If poker did not have a ref there like golf, then I could see how it would be the player's responsibility to speak up here. But since there is a ref, I think that it is not the player's responsibility.

Lets take this one step even farther: In baseball, a catcher may know that a pitch his pitcher threw is outside, but he tried to "frame" it and make it look like a strike. Sometimes this works and the ump calls a strike on what was really a ball. So here we have a case of not only a player not speaking up when he knows the ref made a bad call, but a player intentionally trying to deceive the ref into making that call as well. And I've never heard anyone call the catcher immoral for this.