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Originally Posted by WereBeer
How can this be an angle? The player is facing an all-in, he can either fold or call. There's no further decision point for his opponent.
I guess it could be considered an 'angle' if he held the nuts or near nuts and there was a third player in the hand to act after him. In my opinion, the time he's wasting is a bigger crime than the 'angle'.
A couple of times, I was involved in similar situations. Board was K 8 x x 8, board had 3 of the same suit made on the turn and both x's < 8. Villain checked river, I made a big bet with quad 8's. Villain tanked forever before check raise shoving with KK. I thought the poker gods gave me quads just to punish him for his Hollywooding (though I knew better than to express that opinion out loud).
Also, I was in a tournament and open shoved on the button. The small blind had AA but pretended to tank and try to soul read me for at least a couple of minutes, trying to induce a call from the big blind. Of course the big blind had two rags and was just waiting to fold, no matter what the small blind did. Unfortunately, the poker gods didn't punish that guy for his actions, as I didn't crack his aces and he doubled up (and took almost all of my chips).
