A very interesting ethics situation and a Bellagio Floor ruling

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I think original intent is beside the point. If someone acts out of turn I believe my intent can legitimately be changed given the new information, having not yet completed any action. Trying to get reads on people is part of poker although I would not necessarily advocate deliberately disguising bet size in order to do this. Whether that would be an angleshot or not is a matter of debate. People often move to get their chips in 2nd position in order to deter a bet, and I see this early call situation as usually being just a worse variety of exactly the same thing. The guy is heated, he's NO INTENTION of laying the hand down WHATEVER the bet, but he scared and DOESN'T want to put any more money in. Essentially he's trying to get the pot for cheap. This quick call on the river is almost always an angle shoot in my opinion, and worse for some players it is HABITUAL because they GET AWAY WITH IT SO OFTEN. Time for them to start ponying up the $2000 ALL IN.