Re: A very interesting ethics situation and a Bellagio Floor ruling
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So what we're saying here is that we're going to allow this angle
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Where is the angle?
$460 pot.
Player 1 grabs $400 and is cutting the chips off in the betting area.
On the third $100 stack.
Player 2 says "I call"
What is Player 2 trying to do?
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I thought it was obvious that Player 2 MAY be trying to call for as little as possible.
He sees the guy sort of pause and decides to jump on that situation.
Other player could realize that player 2 might do this so he slows down a little bit to try to induce a call while he was still technically in the act of betting.
Both players are scumbags. I mostly agree with bav on all of this and am really surprised so many thought the floor-decision was the least-bit appropriate.
It's obvious he wasn't going to really bet $2k. I think perhaps he should have the option to bet roughly $400 or so since that appeared to be the amount in his hand and I don't think he had an option to go back to his stack at that point since he hadn't said anything and had started his betting motion.
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