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[Ignignokt]

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a room that has a rule that you lose money for answering your phone is way out of line.

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At Ignignokt's House O' Poker, anyone answering their cell phone at the table would be zapped by the auto-aiming lasers, making their hand, and them, dead.

An exception would be made only if the player was dead money, in which case the laser would zap the phone.

Play the hand OR answer the phone. You get to pick, so I don't see the big deal.

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If you did, and some rule-making administrator tried to stand between you, and a phone call telling you that your kids were in harm's way, you'd want to tear his head off.

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If someone was so desperate to play poker that he demanded to do it while fielding a phone call telling him his kids were in harm's way, I'd want to tear his head off.