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Originally Posted by sturutter View Post
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.
This reminds me of another Doug Lee story. I was playing in a $2/5 NL game with Doug Lee and he did the exact same thing, facing a bet and grabbing a stack with one hand and his cards in the other, then pushing chips/cards forward at the same time while staring down a touristy type player but never having chips cross the cards. Tourist mucks, he flashes me trash with no showdown value and winks at me and says, "Amateurs."
He also told me unsolicited that he has won 90% of his live $100/200 LHE sessions in his life, which I thought was absurd; I guess he's considered a live one in that game based on what some of the regs have posted about him here.