Give your ruling
Setup- year end tournament with added prize pool $, about a dozen players left (paying 7). Middle-late rounds with escalating blinds, so the pots now are very important.
Well-experienced player WE1 in early position and experienced player E2 on button, 6-handed. Both have been playing in your poker group from the beginning.
SB is much less experienced, almost no b&m poker room background, but has been learning some of the simple cardroom nuances and strategies. SB has been playing in the group for almost 2 years.
SB and one of the players have played together in another, more "normal" wild card home game for a number of years, before your poker group
WE1 raises to around 4BB UTG, folding to E2 (who has the biggest stack of the three, but not dominating). E2 chews on it for a while, then calls.
SB, who is very short-stacked, stutters/cuts off and says something like "cal- oh, I'm just going all in", putting in a reraise of another 5BB
WE1 protests, saying SB said call and should be held to the verbal action, and is quite insistent on the point. WE1 says during the furor that the call would be binding in a casino.
What is your ruling as the floor?
BONUS QUESTIONS: How would you change your ruling if you were:
a) WE1
b) E2
c) the host and friend of the SB
Fire away
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