Re: How can YOU make this call?
What! We're not playing lowball?
You definitely call. There are several circumstances in which the pot can be awarded to the losing hand, all you need is a one in a million chance. You can ask that the deck be checked, there might be 51 or 53 cards (it happens). He might kill his hand through some action. He might die (in traditional poker, dead players cannot win the pot, although casino rules allow it). You could try to unobtrusively grab two random cards from the muck (okay, you only have to succeed once in 10,000 tries; then figure there's about 1 chance in 100 those new cards will win).
Or how about this? Call, then fake a heart attack, sweeping your cards to the floor and killing your hand. On the way to the hospital, call the local news and tell them you had the winning cards in a $1 million pot, but didn't collect due to your heart attack. Sell your story for $10 grand.
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