What do you think of this?
Saturday night we had one of our regular home games. This time we had 8 people, $160 prize pool. Two places paid this time, $100 for first and $60 for second. I get down to the final 3 with a husband and wife. Pretty even stacks. I guess I should tell you first about a hand earlier in the night. The pot is only between the two of them. Flop comes 3-4-4. Husband bets out, wife raises, husband asks how much she has left. After about 3 minutes of her whining about him asking that, and about how she just wants to play, he just calls. They check the rest of the hand down. He had pocket aces, she had pocket jacks. She should have been gone there and would have with any other player holding pocket aces. So, we get down to three. Then things start to get really fishy. Every hand between them they are checking down. I get a little behind in chips and this hand comes up. They check down another board all the way and she turns over 3 Jacks. He turns over 2 pairs and asks "why didn't you bet me?". She says to him and her friend "I'm not going to bet you when you are going to finish second, it would be stupid." At this point I get pretty pissed and say something about it. They all act like it's no big deal. The wife would laugh a few times when the husband would try to bet, and he would decide against it. She showed a winning hand every time that happened. After a couple more hands of them doing nothing but checking, and it being fully apparent that they are only going to play pots against me and I am playing 2 on 1, I walk out. I tell them frankly that if the money is worth so much to them they are willing to openly cheat, then they need it more than I do.
What complicates everything is that this is my gf's brother and his wife. If I decide to not play poker with them again, then I lose out on playing in my home game. It will also cause a problem in other ways for me as well. I just don't want to put myself in that situation again. My gf thinks I take it too seriously, but this is real money we are playing for.
What say you?
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