Re: can I player rescind his

On Mar 2, 7:47 pm, "mrtnfisher" <mrtnfis...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Again, I maintain "I call" is a call, regardless what it's followed
by, like "I call if..." or anything else. I'll explain why and then
I'll give you a real life example that happended in my B&M cardroom.

Lets say you say I call if you check the next card. How much time
elapsed between the word call and the word if. Even if he said it with
no delay, the time span is still >0, right? So can he say I
call ............. if you check the next card? What is the time
allowed? 3 secs, 2 secs, .1 secs?? My point is, this is a judgement
that does not have to be made if I call means I call.

Here's the real life example. I'm playing $15-$30 and I say "check".
My opponent says, "check this" and fires his bet into the pot. I
objected saying that his first word was check, and the floor ruled in
my favor. So next time someone says, "check is in the mail" and bets,
it's technically a check.

- Marty

I see what you are saying and I thought the same thing. My view was
more along the lines of someone angle shooting and, in NL holdem,
facing an All-in $200 Bet Heads Up, saying "I call..." and then as his
opponent flips his cards up, adding more to his statement "...$10" and
then refusing to put the additional $190 in the pot only when he sees
he's beat.

However, it appears that in cash games such phrases may not be as
binding as if it were a tournament. So I'd have to agree with
everyone that in the example in the OP that the player that was
calling doesn't have to put the remaining $10 in the pot if he doesn't
want to. I think as an honest poker player he should, even if he
suspects he's beat. I also think that such players should be warned
not to make such ambiguous statements and should be removed if it
continues.

In the NL example I gave above, I think the lesson is that in a cash
game you should never flip your cards up until the pot is good.

Ken

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