Very questionable floor decision at the Gold Strike

[SirPsycho]

This happened about a month ago in Tunica:

A group of my friends and I took a road trip to Tunica. One of them has never played in a casino. He has played many years in home games and we run our local home games as close to casino rules as possible so that people will be comfortable during their first visit to a casino. So, he is familiar with the rules.

The situation - a young college kid sits down for what appears to be his first time ever on a casino poker table. He is pretty loose and is showing down some very bad hands. My friend is to the left of him and is eager to get into a hand with him.

About 4-5 orbits after this kid sits down he is on the button and puts in a small raise (raise to $10 on a $1/2 NL table). My friend raises to $35 and has about $15 left in chips and a $100 bill under those chips. The kid looks at my friend, looks down at his chips and the bill and then says "well, I will put you all-in". My friend's eyes bug out and he excitedly says "hell yeah". Of course, I know he has AA.

Chaos ensues as the kid is told that this all-in includes the bill under the chips and he says that he did not know that the bill played.

The floor is called instantly. After the situation was explained, the floor quickly makes the decision that the pot can stay at the first raise ($35), the flop will come out, and they will continue play from there!

The flop comes out KQ10. My friend is steaming so he doesn't really take a second to think and instantly pushes. Of course, this kid has AJ. The outcome is beside the point, though.

I was very upset by the floor decision. What I think should have been the decision was that the kid would have a choice of either following through with the all-in of an additional $115 above the $35 raise or he can just call the $35 and forfeit the pot (hand over - no flop, etc). The fact that the action was stopped at the $35 raise, giving my friend no other options, and play continued AFTER the flop was a horrible call on the floor. The outcome may have been the same - the kid may have thought his AJ was good and put it all in - but the fact that my friend was caught in the middle of this chaos without any say as to what should happen was very disappointing.