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Originally Posted by sturutter
Well, well well, very interesting.
After an incident in the ME today with this man, I searched the internet for "Doug Lee cheat," and was not surprised to see this guy has a history.
I could not quite believe what went down in the Main Event today...
Massive pot in just the third level, where the two chip leaders at the table are Doug Lee, who has only been there twenty minutes but already seems like an idiot, and an inexperienced Mexican guy. The board on the turn is 7653, and the Mexican makes a big overbet of 11,000.
Lee thinks and thinks; the Mexican is inexperienced and shows his cards to me and his other neighbour- 98 for the nut straight! As I'm praying for action, Lee says "OK then, let's go," takes hold off all his chips, and moves them about 2 inches forward. Admittedly his chips were behind his cards, which may save him from this being binding?
He gets what he wants; the Mexican lurches forward, and he is able to muck. The Mexican does not realise what an angle has just been shot, so I call the floor in disgust. Doug Lee looks worried, but thanks to a clueless dealer now amazingly has picked up both his and the Mexican's cards, and thrown them into the muck.
I am still adamant that Lee has made a verbal declaration all-in, but unfortunately our floor man is as clueless as the dealer. By now, he goes with the easier option, which is to say "next hand," and let Lee off BIG style. It was a difference of about 31,000 in chips, massive at that stage.
As I and a couple of others demand a second opinion, Lee bullies the floor staff by saying "it's over, it's over" and handing the deck of cards to the dealer. Just ridiculous.
What do you reckon? Should his action be binding? Whether it is or not, he was shooting a massive angle, and KNEW it. A pathetic man.
I'm the "other neighbor" in this hand and Doug Lee's conduct during the whole incident was ridiculous. Setting aside the ruling by the floor who first arrived (who happened to be a floor for the Live Action and should not have been making any decisions bearing on the tourney), at least five other floors came over at one point or another. Four of the five said Doug Lee should have been ruled all in. Then the tournament director came over and said his ruling would have been that Doug was all in.
Cost the mexican guy 31k chips as he had the nuts at the time.