Tonight for the first time in a few months I decided to play with a few guys from my college. I had just finished an exam so wanted to take it easy, but I didn't really want to play cash live (I'd rather play a home tournament for $10 or so). They were playing 25/50 and most of them were buying in for $20, so I bit the bullet and joined in anyway. I knew the game would be pretty easy, so it was mostly for fun anyway. The other guys were all recreational players, so I was definitely one of the better there, and in a couple hours or so had at least $50 on the table.
Surprisingly, there were two tables going, mine had 8 and the other 7. There were a lot of new faces, so it was cool to meet some new players. The guy to my right was pretty friendly, so we were talking a bit. I kept having to ask about the action because I don't typically play live.
Anyway, there were so many people that the chips ran out. Eventually we came to the idea to just use dollar bills. I opted to exchange some of my chips for a $20 and a few other guys did too.
A few hands later the guy on my right and I got involved in a hand. He raised the CO for about $3 and I flatted on the BTN with K
Q
. HU the flop came J88 and he bet $4. I looked at the rest of his stack (which looked to be about $8) and decided just to jam (I guess pretty much a tilt jam, I hadn't picked up a decent hand for about 4 orbits, and the game was so loose I couldn't really play anything. I convinced myself he was just continuation betting and the board was so dry, but it didn't really make sense in that spot). The second I jammed, I realized that I hadn't just jammed $8, but had jammed for his chips plus the $20 he had tucked under the chips. He snap called and showed A
J
.
I immediately said something about not realizing what I had just done, and that I didn't realize he had that much behind. He asked me what I had, and I said nothing, KQ. He started taking my chips without saying anything, and I repeated once or twice that I didn't realize I was jamming such a big amount. The other guys all knew, I suspect, that I wouldn't get so out of line based on my playing style, but none of them said anything.
I was very frustrated at this point so I just put my cards back on the table and got my things to leave. Then, it occurred to me that I didn't even see the last two streets and I asked if they had played the hand out, and if any Ks or Qs had come up. The host replied that the highest card was a Q, I guess not hearing what I had said, and I told him that my hand was KQ. By this point they had already started dealing the next hand with the same deck and they asked "Well what do we do now?" I just said forget it, and left.
Yes, the whole situation is my fault for not being more careful, and I also realize it's only $20. I have losing days all the time, but just the frustration of the whole situation has left me on edge for the past 5 hours or so. I played online for a bit, until my eyes started to hurt, and made back $17 or so. But my question is, in a friendly game, would you consider this okay etiquette? Considering that I had repeatedly shown my ineptitude with live cash games, and immediately said that I had made a mistake--not to mention the fact that I had been talking to this guy and, had I not left the hand, would've won it--if you were in the same situation, would you have just taken the money and said tough luck? I looked the guy right in the eye and he just said nothing and took the $20 I had and the rest of my chips. For me, personally, I'm thinking at the very least some sort of a deal (ie whatever he had, discounting the $20) would've been more sportsmanlike.