When callers beat you to the pot at limit poker - Angle shoot?

[PantsOnFire]

It is very common to pull out chips on the river and riffle them while you are thinking about how the hand went down and whether a bet (for value or bluff as need be) is now appropriate. And you can certainly look at your opponent while doing this. And if there is a bet line, it is abundantly clear you can play hockey with your chips behind the bet line if you want.

In reality, and I don't play limit a lot, at a 1/2 limit game and somebody is mulling over putting $4 into a $40 pot, of course the guy on the other side of the table is going to fire his $4 call and probably ahead of your bet sometimes as you pointed out.

I don't see anything wrong here. It all sounds pretty innocuous. Perhaps you are lucky to have saved a BB, perhaps villain fired a call into the pot with air hoping you would do just that. I don't know.

What I do know is that in NL people don't do this for obvious reasons.