[NevadaKaz]

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You weren't in the hand. IMO your only role should be to mention this to the floor-person if you feel it's appropriate. Piping up with a list of rules makes you look like a jackass know-it-all to the dealer and a nit to the rest of the players.

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Wrong in SO many ways. A dealers job is to move the game along, not try to impose himself on the game, and cetainly not put undue pressure on the player.

I am not suggesting this is the case here, but the dealer putting the lcock on somebody could be something pre planned between the dealer and a player at the table. Mos people seem to fold when they have the clock put on them, so the dealer could be working with the all in player. Or the dealer could be working with the thinking player, and reitterating the bet and calling the clock could be some sort of code.

Once again, I am not suggesting this is what happened here, but it is not beyonds the realms of possibility that in some joints, players anddealers work together in such a fashion.