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Originally Posted by Montrealcorp
Yeah I know I play online ...
You've never played live? Wow.
Most of the table is playing with chips most of the time. Live poker is boring. You have these fun discs. Then shuffling happens. Based on your rule, you'd have 90% of the table in every pot.
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Originally Posted by KL03
I can't think of any reason to do this other than to angle someone or try to get a reaction. Totally unnecessary...
As described, it is unquestionably a call. The question is if you ask to call the floor to enforce it because the dealer didn't see anything.
You play in a room with one rule. You think that rule is the best. You could be 100% correct in both, like Captain R says.
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Originally Posted by Captain R
Depends on the cardroom.
In places where there isn't a strict forward motion rule, people just have calling or raising chips in hand, move their hands around, and then cut out bets/raises. Maybe it is worse, but it is pretty hard to say "100% X" without knowing the actual rules.
I'm with DeathDonkey and CaptainR here, pot won no extra bet. Could we have a universal rule of poker betting/calling that is even better? Maybe. Over the years, the angle shooters just figure out what the edge of any rule is and take advantage. That's why they're angle shooters. I still don't see how the guy in this example was doing anything but being clueless, but it could be that I'm missing the key part of the local rules and how he interacted with them. The only benefit I could see is if he's looking at HF for a tell with his fake call, and that didn't seem to be part of the story. Dude can do whatever he wants while staring at the boardcards, as far as I care.