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Doesn't take more than a couple of seconds to say "you can only do that heads up." This does raise a point. Until very recently big bet poker was only played by a handful of people. These people all knew the rules so there was never a problem.

I am not a big fan of rule books because you can never cover every possible situation. Poker was played before there were rule books. As people learned the rules they started to write them down. I first learned this when I was writing a rule book. There was a lack of NL rules, so i talked to someone that had been involved with writing the rules for a casino that had NL. he explained the game hadn't been going long enough to be comfortable writing down the rules, but he played in the game and would help answer any questions I had. I realized then that less is better. Specific situations should be left to those that are trained in determining what is fair and equitable for all involved.