Re: Floor Ruling on a player\'s action
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no it is not clear that he is all in as his hand has not been removed from the chips. Until his hand is removed from the chips or he makes a verbal declaration he has not acted.
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You may be thinking of chess rules here.
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This is generally the rule in my room. If you have not brought your hand back you can still change your action, however the way that the chips were put together here and pushed out I would expect that a floor would rule this as an all in bet.
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I think this is close enough to consider the character of the players involved. In cases like this the floor needs to consider who is most likely to be shooting an angle here. I know there will be some here that want a hard and fast rule so I will direct them to this rule:
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8. The same action may have a different meaning, depending on who does it, so the possible intent of an offender will be taken into consideration. Some factors here are the person’s amount of poker experience and past record.
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