Re: A very interesting ethics situation and a Bellagio Floor ruling
Some n00bs get really excited in the heat of the moment of a live game and really jump the gun saying "i call" or "i raise" when the action is yet to get to them. This can happen both pre-flop and post-flop.
I don't doubt that in many situations it's just a ploy to get the guy to stop placing chips out there prematurely or some other kind of angle. But some of the premature I calls can certainly be of the honest-n00b-mistake variety.
Everybody has to have a time where it is their first time playing live in a casino. Not to mention that some people play when they're pretty drunk.
Presumably, you wouldn't mind if these first-timers or drunks stepped right into the 5/10 or 10/20 NL game since they are likely to be massive donators.
If there is some sort of innocent procedural error to be made by them like this I really don't think it should cost them their whole stack by a bettor potentially slowing down his chip-cutting to try to induce an "I call."
Again, I don't think that's what happened here. But assuming that everybody knows what they're doing and that honest mistakes post-flop don't happen is not correct imo.
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