The dealer said I couldn't do it

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I saw exactly this happen at Caesars in LV about WSOP time. 2/5 game, the pot was growing large, it was heads up, and a fellow puts in $300. His opponent says "that's too much" and starts to fold. Guy says "wait--how much would you call" and when he hears "$100" the bettor retracts two stacks. Everybody looks at the dealer, dealer is looking a bit unsure, but there's a suit behind the table watching who has said nothing. So it continues. The great joy of this is the opponent hit his 2-outter on the river and stacked the "clever" fellow for like $800.

As the river betting is happening another suit walks up and looks annoyed. When the hand is over he yells at the table in general telling us, "This will NEVER happen again! Once a bet is out, it stays out. GOT IT?" Other suit looks a little sheepish. But they obviously let it stand--nothing you can reasonably do once the river is underway.

I was a-ok with their transaction. Nobody at the table objected--quite the opposite, we were all pretty amused by it. Seems like at this point it's between two consenting poker players. So I didn't understand SuperSuit's great annoyance at us. If he didn't like it, fine, just tell the other suit and the dealer they shouldn't have let that happen. No need to pop any corks.

Thinking about popping corks, the only time I can recall seeing a floor just TOTALLY go off the deep-end was when he looked up and saw a game of 12 players going on. There had been two tables of 6, but someone miscounted and they'd shouted up and asked if it was ok to combine 5+6 into an 11-person table. He'd agreed. Then they found themselves one chair short and just fixed it by letting someone squeeze in. But the floor's sputtering, screaming speech explained his perplexion: "WHAT THE HELL!!!!! SOMEBODY stand up RIGHT NOW! I don't care who, ONE of you has to get up this instant! I'm NOT KIDDING! GET UP or I'm breaking the whole table in 5 seconds! Do you have ANY idea what would happen to me if Gaming walked in here now? We're licensed for 5 tables of 11! I'll be instantly out of a job if anybody sees this. NOW SOMEBODY GET UP!" Poor guy was turning purple.