[luckydonut]

This is really eating me now I've had chance to sleep on it. It's the first time I've come close to thinking I may have seen house collusion in a Las Vegas cardroom, and that really doesn't feel great, however unlikely it still is. I'm also pretty annoyed that I was made to look like a desperate angle-shooter. If the decision had gone the other way, nobody would have blamed the player for causing a fuss (just like it happened earlier in the week) but it's totally unsporting for me to ask for a house rule to be used consistently in this spot.

I did ask the floorperson whether the player told him the suits as well as the card values. By doing so I'm already implying the player is a cheat, and getting cold stares from around the table. He said yes but that was that; neither of them either offered to call the hand before it was turned up. I held back from asking outright "do you know him?", although I'm starting to wish I did. Obviously I'll be better prepared if this ever happens again to insist that the player at least names the cards out loud (there was no further action, but the post-it idea would work for me too if there was).