Am I out of line here?

[LasVegasMichael]

Floor ruling was correct. Your action was not.

[bav]

Yes, Bobbo, you were way out of line. Don't do dat. Every player has to table his hand to make a claim for the pot and you can't help someone read their hand to decide whether or not to table it.

It's not so clear the floor ruling was correct. OP said the pocket tens guy "was in the process of mucking". If the guy had already placed his cards forward face down and the dealer just hadn't swept 'em, he doesn't get the pot at this stage. If he was still waving his cards around, he does get the pot. If he was heading forward with the cards face down 30 milliseconds from releasing 'em... well... floor just has to take a guess as to whether the player had given up and wouldn't have seen it on his own, but I think if he still has the cards in his hand he hasn't given up.

[Cactus Jack]

Everybody has done this, even the ones who've said you were out of line. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

(Don't do it again.)

((or screw the 'Net guy with the sunglasses, which is my preferred opinion))

[MicroBob]

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Everybody has done this, even the ones who've said you were out of line.

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I have never done this.

I have even mildly admonished a player who tried to suggest to me what I should do.


I am in 3 seat, opponent is in 8 or 9 seat.
I have AA with no club, board has 4 clubs.
We check the river I believe.

she turns over her hand and it takes me a little while before I let go of my cards because I'm straining to see across the table to see what she has.
She had spades but made a straight which still beat me.
But from that far across the table it can be hard to see so I wanted to make sure I was beat before I mucked my AA.

Some player not involved in the hand informs me that if I have a club then I should show my hand because I win.

Dealer and I both inform him that he shouldn't be doing that.
The lady who won the hand didn't seem to mind that he was trying to help me read the board and win the hand.

I don't think the guy believed or understood what the dealer and I were telling him about his 'help' being really inappropriate.

[AngusThermopyle]

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between the guy to my left who I was chatting with occasionally all night and another youngish guy accross the table with sunglasses who seemed to think he was the best player in LA.

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Ruling right.
You wrong.
Hope your attitude toward the two players involved wasn't the real reason you opened your mouth.

[Bobbo539]

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between the guy to my left who I was chatting with occasionally all night and another youngish guy accross the table with sunglasses who seemed to think he was the best player in LA.

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Ruling right.
You wrong.
Hope your attitude toward the two players involved wasn't the real reason you opened your mouth.

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I added this part because in hindsight I think it made a difference in my descision to speak up. I was really wishing I hadn't said anything afterwards, but it was one of those situations where if I had waited one second his cards are in the muck, so I didn't logically think about it. I guess the only thing to do now is learn from the mistake, I doubt it was a life changing amount of money for either.